As Turkey moves toward a heated race between political parties to win seats in Parliament in the upcoming June 7 general elections, local sources have reported that Yurt Atayün, a Gülen Movement-linked former head of the Istanbul police's counterterrorism department, submitted his application to be a deputy candidate nominee for the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). While the MHP announced in October 2014 that the party is preparing to launch a detailed inspection of party members ahead of the 2015 general elections to prevent members of the Gülen Movement from infiltrating the body, Atayün's nomination led to confusion among the local media.Atayün, who is a former high-level officer, was dismissed from duty in early August of 2014 due to illegal espionage activities and was also accused of profiling officers in the police department based on their backgrounds and beliefs, has officially submitted his candidacy for nomination for İzmir for the MHP. Although the officials from the MHP, such as Deputy Chairman Tuğrul Türkeş, confessed in late October 2014 that members of the Gülen Movement attempted to infiltrate his party, local sources have reported that the Atayün, who had sent a denunciation letter full of false and distorted information to the armed forces about a lieutenant colonel who later committed suicide, had submitted his candidacy for the MHP.In addition to Atayün's surprising candidacy for Turkey's nationalist party, Feyzi İşbaşaran, who was a former deputy for the eastern province of Elazığ for the AK Party and also known for his close ties with the Gülen Movement, has announced his candidacy for nomination from his Twitter account for Istanbul's third region for the Republican People's Party (CHP). İşbaşaran was arrested in early December 2014 for sending death threats via Twitter to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his wife Emine. The former deputy said that Erdoğan "definitely deserves death" and also published numerous tweets insulting Erdoğan. He also had threatened Armenian intellectual, senior advisor to the prime minister and Daily Sabah columnist, Etyen Mahçupyan, saying he is an "agent" and must be "taken down." İşbaşaran is also known for insulting and threatening a user on Twitter who had disagreed with him.Arrest warrants were issued by the Istanbul Third Penal Court of Peace on Tuesday for Fethullah Gülen and Emre Uslu for allegedly wiretapping 101 people, including Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and Erdoğan. The Gülen Movement is seen as a threat to national security by the government as it is accused of infiltrating top state institutions, including the police and judiciary, and wiretapping thousands of people including senior officials, journalists, actors, heads of nongovernmental organization and others.