CEVAP:

One incident marked the beginning of interbourgeois conflict and its politicization. In the 1960s, a section of businessmen largely constituted by small and medium sized entrepreneurs was mobilized by a professor and businessman, Necmettin Erbakan. He won the leadership of the Union of Chambers (Türkiye Odalar ve Borsalar Birliği-TOBB) through a campaign against an AP backed candidate. Big business and the Prime Minister, Demirel, did not welcome Erbakan’s leadership of the TOBB. Demirel retaliated without hesitation by transferring the Chambers’ authority in import licensing to the Ministry of Trade. The conflict between Erbakan and the Prime Minister resulted in the elimination of Erbakan from the leadership of TOBB. Following this incident, Erbakan decided to take part in general elections with his close friends, became an independent MP in 1969 and formed his own party, the National Order
Party (Milli Nizam Partisi-MNP) in 1970. The Party accused AP of having become a tool of big and cosmopolitan business groups in Istanbul and having neglected the small businessmen of Anatolia