MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli, perhaps the only Turkish politician who doesn’t understand how threads work on Twitter, announces in a series of tweets that his party will not run a joint list with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s AK Party.
Instead, the MHP will stand its own candidates in each of Turkey’s 87 electoral districts.
Is that a show of confidence, or is the party in more trouble than he’s letting on?
Kavra is a daily election podcast ahead of Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary election on 14 May 2023.
