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'Cyprus is Turkish' Says Nationalist Leader

The leader of Turkey's far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has claimed the island of Cyprus is Turkish. Devlet Bahceli, whose party has been suffering in opinion polls ahead of the June 24 presidential and parliamentary elections, was reported by the...

Erdogan’s Far-Right Ally Says Greek Minister Should 'Visit a Clinic'

The leader of Turkey’s ultra-right MHP party Devlet Bahceli on Tuesday launched a stinging attack on Greece's defense minister Panos Kammenos saying that he should be "visiting a clinic". Speaking at a party conference, Bahceli singled out Kammenos who has...

Erdogan's Far-Right Ally Launches Anti-Greek Broadside

The leader of Turkey's ultra-right MHP party Devlet Bahceli on Monday revisited one of his favorite topics: throwing Greeks into the sea. This time he hit out at Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras for suggesting that Greece is not afraid of...

Turkish Nationalist Leader: 15 Aegean Islands Were Illegally Taken by Greece

Devlet Bahceli, the leader of the Nationalist Action Party (MHP), known as Gray Wolves, sent a threatening message to Athens saying that 15 islands are held by Greece "illegally and unfairly." According to Kathimerini, Bahcelii called on Greece not to...

Turkish Rightist Leader: 'We Can Show Greece What Happened in 1922'

"If the Greeks want to fall in the sea again, the Turkish army is ready," said Devlet Bahceli, chairman of Turkey's Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), according to a Proto Thema report. This was the latest in a series of daily...

Another Greek Muslim Minority SYRIZA Candidate Resigns

Greece’s main opposition party SYRIZA is in the spotlight after one of its candidates for May’s local elections representing the country’s Muslim minority in western Thrace was forced to resign on Wednesday over alleged connections with Turkey’s neo-fascist political scene. The SYRIZA...