People's Alliance
Turkey's ruling electoral alliance of the AKP and MHP, formed in 2018.
On 27 October 2026 the People's Alliance took the Mecca defence pact with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan through a Turkish parliamentary committee, joined by the opposition CHP. Any later deployment to Saudi Arabia rests on its majority.
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The Justice and Development Party and the Nationalist Movement Party formed the People's Alliance (Cumhur İttifakı) on 20 February 2018; the Great Unity Party joined later. It came first in the parliamentary elections of June 2018, with 53.7% of the vote, and of May 2023, with 49.5%.
It holds a majority in the 600-seat Grand national assembly, so its two main parties can pass government legislation without opposition votes. The AKP supplies most of its seats; the MHP's share is what turns a plurality into a majority.
That arithmetic decides the Mecca pact. the Alliance carried the ratification bill at committee stage, and a separate motion to send Turkish air-defence crews to Saudi Arabia could follow once the full assembly ratifies. A plenary date has not been set.
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