# Bahçeli's MHP forms People's Alliance with AKP

Date: 2018

In February 2018 [Devlet Bahçeli](/people/devlet-bahceli)'s MHP agreed to form the People's Alliance with [Erdoğan](/people/recep-tayyip-erdogan)'s AKP, after Bahçeli announced that his party would not field its own presidential candidate and would back Erdoğan's re-election instead. The alliance then contested the June 2018 presidential and parliamentary elections together.

## People

- Devlet Bahçeli: https://factrail.ai/people/devlet-bahceli

## Sources

- https://www.dailysabah.com/elections/2018/02/21/mhp-ak-party-to-join-forces-for-2019-presidential-elections-in-a-peoples-alliance
- https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/legislation-on-election-alliance-submitted-to-parliament-127708
- https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/opinion/serkan-demirtas/is-turkeys-opposition-ready-for-snap-elections-130472
- https://www.dailysabah.com/elections/2018/05/02/opposition-parties-agree-to-unite-against-peoples-alliance-in-upcoming-turkish-elections

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/bahceli-people-alliance-2018