"Do not resign from my position as party leader. There will be more resignations." These remarks made Wednesday by the Turkish nationalist party leader (MHP), Devlet Bahçeli, and the resignation of six of its members, almost all of the leadership, have only been three days. Sufficient to change their minds Bahçeli, save political embarrassment to six and put in a tough predicament for political education, now his future looks very black in the general election June 12.
It all began in early May, when several sexually explicit videos featuring four senior members of the MHP were published on the Internet and led to the resignation of its protagonists. For this week, the threat has been enough of a group calling itself the different ideals blackmailer (Farkli Ülkücülük in Turkish), which warned this week that material had committed six senior, who identified with names, and Bahçeli public if you would not leave his post.
Despite their anger and their determination not to leave their post, the six members on Friday presented their letters of resignation which was accepted on Saturday by the party leader, reports the Efe news agency. These include three vice presidents and a secretary general. Content is still unknown and the actual existence of the videos, but it seems that none would be at risk given the material that the organization had in its previous party colleagues.
In one published in early May can be seen Emine, a student according to the subtitles, maintaining a sexual relationship with the vice president of MHP, Bülent Didinmez, married with three children. In the other are two policy officials speaking with several women, one identified as a prostitute, and later in the company of other girls, allegedly minors.
Conspiracy Theories The resignation of almost the entire leadership of a party is unprecedented in the history of Turkish democracy. What is not so is the use of sex videos as political blackmail. The first was a year ago, when Deniz Baykal, the then leader of the second political force in Turkey, the Republican People's Party (CHP), was forced to resign by a tape in which he was seen having sex with a deputy of his own training.
Then in August, it was his turn to Akif Hamzaçebi, another by the same party CHP. To date, the AKP is the only major party that the scandal has not splashed. Moreover, as noted Bahçeli handled last Wednesday, is the ultimate beneficiary of all this. The Turks are much given to conspiracy theories, whether or not groundless, but that no one misses are the possible repercussions of the scandal, occurring just 20 days before the general elections of 12 June.
"The AKP is using this to their advantage politically. The press is biased. Justice is silent. The prosecution is slow and passive National Intelligence Organization," said Bahçeli. For his part, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the nationalist party of "trying to blame the Government for its internal problems." These problems could make the MHP does not get 10% of the votes needed to enter parliament, which is very possible and that their intention to vote was 13% before the scandal breaks out, according to a survey by the agency IKSara.
The same survey gave the government group, the moderate Islamist Party of Justice and Development Party (AKP), 45.5% of the vote, and the main opposition party, the Social CHP, 30.5%. The output of the MHP could mean Parliament, analysts say, that moderate Islamists were to gain control of two thirds of the House.
A sufficient majority to amend the Constitution, how is rumored to carry out political reform and establish a presidential system. 
It all began in early May, when several sexually explicit videos featuring four senior members of the MHP were published on the Internet and led to the resignation of its protagonists. For this week, the threat has been enough of a group calling itself the different ideals blackmailer (Farkli Ülkücülük in Turkish), which warned this week that material had committed six senior, who identified with names, and Bahçeli public if you would not leave his post.
Despite their anger and their determination not to leave their post, the six members on Friday presented their letters of resignation which was accepted on Saturday by the party leader, reports the Efe news agency. These include three vice presidents and a secretary general. Content is still unknown and the actual existence of the videos, but it seems that none would be at risk given the material that the organization had in its previous party colleagues.
In one published in early May can be seen Emine, a student according to the subtitles, maintaining a sexual relationship with the vice president of MHP, Bülent Didinmez, married with three children. In the other are two policy officials speaking with several women, one identified as a prostitute, and later in the company of other girls, allegedly minors.
Conspiracy Theories The resignation of almost the entire leadership of a party is unprecedented in the history of Turkish democracy. What is not so is the use of sex videos as political blackmail. The first was a year ago, when Deniz Baykal, the then leader of the second political force in Turkey, the Republican People's Party (CHP), was forced to resign by a tape in which he was seen having sex with a deputy of his own training.
Then in August, it was his turn to Akif Hamzaçebi, another by the same party CHP. To date, the AKP is the only major party that the scandal has not splashed. Moreover, as noted Bahçeli handled last Wednesday, is the ultimate beneficiary of all this. The Turks are much given to conspiracy theories, whether or not groundless, but that no one misses are the possible repercussions of the scandal, occurring just 20 days before the general elections of 12 June.
"The AKP is using this to their advantage politically. The press is biased. Justice is silent. The prosecution is slow and passive National Intelligence Organization," said Bahçeli. For his part, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the nationalist party of "trying to blame the Government for its internal problems." These problems could make the MHP does not get 10% of the votes needed to enter parliament, which is very possible and that their intention to vote was 13% before the scandal breaks out, according to a survey by the agency IKSara.
The same survey gave the government group, the moderate Islamist Party of Justice and Development Party (AKP), 45.5% of the vote, and the main opposition party, the Social CHP, 30.5%. The output of the MHP could mean Parliament, analysts say, that moderate Islamists were to gain control of two thirds of the House.
A sufficient majority to amend the Constitution, how is rumored to carry out political reform and establish a presidential system.
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