Erbakan was banned from politics for five years, and former MP members and mayors of RP joined the successor Virtue Party. Istanbul mayor, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from the Virtue Party, was soon afterwards given a prison sentence after he read a nationalist and Islamist poem at a public function where he was present as mayor, and he was banned from politics for five years as well.
Erbakan's political career was suspended for five years, while former parliamentarians and mayors of RP joined the new Virtue Party. Shortly thereafter, Istanbul Mayor Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from the Virtue Party received a prison sentence after reciting an Islamist poem at a public gathering, and he too faced a five-year ban from politics.