June 8, 2011

Bahçeli's comments on Fethullah Gülen to likely cost MHP votes in Erzurum

Abdullah Bozkurt

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli's attacks on leading Turkish Muslim scholar Fethullah Gülen during election rally speeches has had a major disenfranchising impact on his potential voters in Erzurum province in eastern Turkey, the birthplace of Mr. Gülen himself.