ANKARA Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has called for the creation of a strategic partnership of Türkiye , Russia and China to counter what he described as an “evil coalition” led by the United States and Israel. In a written statement posted on the MHP’s website on Sept. 18, Bahçeli said the proposed "TRC" alliance — an acronym he used for Türkiye, Russia and China — would be “in line with reason, diplomacy, the spirit of politics, geographical conditions and the