FILE PHOTO: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Devlet Bahceli, leader of Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), talk on the stage during a rally ahead of local elections, in Ankara, Turkey, March 23, 2019. REUTERS/Umit Bektas/File Photo
ANKARA (Reuters) - A month after local elections which saw it lose control of Turkey's two largest cities, officials in President Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party are questioning an alliance with nationalists which some blame for one of its biggest electoral setbacks.
Under a deal between Erdogan's Islamist-rooted party and the smaller Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), the nationalists fielded no mayoral candidate in the capital Ankara or Istanbul in the March 31 vote, and the AKP stood aside in other regions.
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