MHP Leader Bahçeli Hosts Historic Reconciliation of Saral and Şahin Families
Long-feuding families meet at MHP headquarters under Devlet Bahçeli's mediation.
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- MHP Chairman Devlet Bahçeli mediated a meeting between the feuding Saral and Şahin families at party headquarters.
- Family representatives Burhanettin Saral and Sedat Şahin appeared together with Bahçeli after talks.
- The Istanbul-based rivalry has spanned decades and involved legal proceedings.
- Kayseri Olay Haber reports 13 deaths in clashes between 2004 and 2017.
- A Saral family gathering of ~4,000 people occurred in Trabzon's Sürmene district before the Ankara meeting.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Chairman Devlet Bahçeli brought representatives of the Saral and Şahin families together at the party headquarters in Ankara on September 26. The meeting was officially described as a "historic embrace and gathering" between the two families.
Burhanettin Saral represented the Saral family while Sedat Şahin represented the Şahin family during the talks with Bahçeli. Both men appeared alongside the MHP leader for cameras following the closed-door meeting.
“Our country's two valuable families, the Sarals and the Şahins, came together at our headquarters in a historic embrace and gathering with our Chairman Devlet Bahçeli.”
The rivalry between the two families, centered in Istanbul, has persisted since the early 2000s and led to court cases. According to Kayseri Olay Haber, clashes between 2004 and 2017 claimed 13 lives from both families.
Prior to the Ankara meeting, the Saral family held a large gathering in Trabzon's Sürmene district attended by approximately 4,000 people. Presidential Senior Advisor Oktay Saral and Of Mayor Salim Salih Sarıalioğlu also participated in that event.
MHP Kayseri Deputy Baki Ersoy welcomed the reconciliation with a social media post stating "May it be auspicious." The party has not released further details on the substance of the discussions.
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