MHP's Bahceli lashes out at Erdogan

Opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahceli yesterday lashed out at Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, saying that efforts to counter the will of the nation and the judiciary will come to nothing. "Erdogan is struggling to save his political career, not for th sake of Turkey's future," Bahceli told his deputies at a parliamentary group meeting. Touching on the closure case against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Bahceli stated, "Following the AKP's closure, any newly founded party should also be closed, because it will only a continuation of the AKP, and that is against the Constitution."