Good Party
Turkish centre-right nationalist party founded by Meral Akşener in 2017; now in opposition.
On 27 October 2026 the Good Party voted against ratifying the Mecca defence pact in a Turkish parliamentary committee, a nationalist No from outside the governing alliance.
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Meral Akşener founded the Good Party (İYİ Parti) on 25 October 2017. Müsavat Dervişoğlu has chaired it since 1 May 2024. It combines Turkish nationalism and Kemalism with a pro-European line, and sits in opposition.
The party won 43 seats in 2023 and now holds about 27 of the 600 seats in the Grand national assembly. That decline leaves it a smaller opposition group, but one that competes with the governing alliance for nationalist voters.
Its vote against the Mecca pact matters for that reason. Opposition to the defence pledge with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan came from a nationalist party as well as from the pro-Kurdish left.
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Written with AI from Lowdown's published reporting. Not individually reviewed by an editor. Updated 29 October 2026. Editorial standards.