Devlet Bahçeli, leader of the Nationalist Movement Party, has taken the floor at his party's group meeting, where he is making a series of statements on the current agenda. Group meetings are the regular sessions the MHP holds while parliament sits, giving the chairman a podium in front of his deputies and party officials. Bahçeli has run the party for decades, and his remarks at these sessions are treated as signals of where his camp stands on the big debates. The MHP supports the governing alliance in Turkish politics, so anything its chairman says gets parsed for hints about coalition maneuvering. The report carrying his appearance gives no detail about which topics he chose to address. Turkish outlets nonetheless flagged the remarks as significant, running them as breaking news while he spoke. More information about the content of the speech was expected as the session went on.