Istanbul, correspondence - The campaign for parliamentary elections to be held June 12 in Turkey, is overshadowed by a scandal that decimated the Turkish far-right party MHP (Nationalist Action Party), the third political force in Parliament Outgoing. Ten MHP officials were forced to resign since early May, following the publication by a mysterious website, compromising video.
For the Nationalist Party and its leader, Devlet Bahçeli, MHP is the victim of a conspiracy hatched by the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in order to weaken it before the election. For three weeks the website Farkle Ülkücülük - named "a different ideal" refers to the idealism of the founding doctrine MHP - orchestrates a campaign of blackmail and revelations that poisons the election campaign.
Saturday, six senior party officials have resigned after the revelation of a video showing one of them in the company of a young woman. The site had threatened to leave the "sex tapes" of these assistants Devlet Bahçeli, who were mostly candidates for a parliamentary seat. Already the previous weeks, four other executives of the Nationalist Party, all married, had abandoned their political ambitions after explicit videos, revealing their extramarital affairs.
All other political parties have condemned the conspiracy which monopolizes political debate. "I find it disgusting and very dangerous," Prime Minister Erdogan condemned the Sunday during a campaign rally in Gebze (West). The leader of the AKP, the ruling Justice and Development, has strongly refuted the charges against his party, suspected of being behind this "matter of tapes." Who benefits? At the AKP, which virtually guaranteed a large victory, could be the big beneficiary of the collapse of the MHP.
If June 12, he could not cross the constitutional threshold of 10%, MHP lose any representative. With 14% in 2007, he received 71 parliamentary seats. Suddenly, without the MHP, AKP would have every chance to grab an absolute majority in Parliament (330 seats). If unsuccessful, the MHP would suffer a serious succession crisis.
The party was founded in 1969 by Colonel Alparslan Türkeş, a leader of the putsch of 1960, forming the backbone of nationalist ideology. The militias of the party and its youth organization, called "The Grey Wolves", became famous in the 1970s for spreading terror in the country by a series of political assassinations.
Since his election to head Devlet Bahçeli, the MHP wants to be more respectable: he participated in a coalition government in 1999. Secular party and militaristic in origin, the MHP has gradually turned to a more rural and conservative voters. Guillaume Perrier 
For the Nationalist Party and its leader, Devlet Bahçeli, MHP is the victim of a conspiracy hatched by the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in order to weaken it before the election. For three weeks the website Farkle Ülkücülük - named "a different ideal" refers to the idealism of the founding doctrine MHP - orchestrates a campaign of blackmail and revelations that poisons the election campaign.
Saturday, six senior party officials have resigned after the revelation of a video showing one of them in the company of a young woman. The site had threatened to leave the "sex tapes" of these assistants Devlet Bahçeli, who were mostly candidates for a parliamentary seat. Already the previous weeks, four other executives of the Nationalist Party, all married, had abandoned their political ambitions after explicit videos, revealing their extramarital affairs.
All other political parties have condemned the conspiracy which monopolizes political debate. "I find it disgusting and very dangerous," Prime Minister Erdogan condemned the Sunday during a campaign rally in Gebze (West). The leader of the AKP, the ruling Justice and Development, has strongly refuted the charges against his party, suspected of being behind this "matter of tapes." Who benefits? At the AKP, which virtually guaranteed a large victory, could be the big beneficiary of the collapse of the MHP.
If June 12, he could not cross the constitutional threshold of 10%, MHP lose any representative. With 14% in 2007, he received 71 parliamentary seats. Suddenly, without the MHP, AKP would have every chance to grab an absolute majority in Parliament (330 seats). If unsuccessful, the MHP would suffer a serious succession crisis.
The party was founded in 1969 by Colonel Alparslan Türkeş, a leader of the putsch of 1960, forming the backbone of nationalist ideology. The militias of the party and its youth organization, called "The Grey Wolves", became famous in the 1970s for spreading terror in the country by a series of political assassinations.
Since his election to head Devlet Bahçeli, the MHP wants to be more respectable: he participated in a coalition government in 1999. Secular party and militaristic in origin, the MHP has gradually turned to a more rural and conservative voters. Guillaume Perrier
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