Nationalist Movement Party

The Nationalist Movement Party is a Turkish far-right

ultraconservative political party that adheres to Turkish ultranationalism and Euroscepticism.

The party was formed in 1969 by former colonel Alparslan Türkeş, who had become leader of the Republican Villagers Nation Party in 1965. The party mainly followed a Pan-Turkist and nationalist political agenda throughout the latter half of the 20th century, but later moderated its views under the leadership of Devlet Bahçeli, who took over after Türkeş's death in 1997. The party's youth wing is the Gray Wolves organization, which is also known as the "Nationalist Hearths". Türkeş, who is widely revered by Turkish nationalists as the founder of the idealist movement, is commonly referred to as "Chieftain" by his supporters.