From 2022, Turek began commenting on politics on VOX TV's online program
Po žních k Turkovi (lit. "To Turek after the harvest") as well as Xaver Live's
Přisně tajné (lit. "Top Secret"). His positions included support for a
minimal state, questioning of liberal values, and opposition to the
euro, the
European Green Deal, and the proposed ban on the production of cars with
internal combustion engines. In the
2024 European Parliament election, he ran as a non-affiliated candidate for the populist party
Přísaha, as the lead candidate for the
Přísaha and Motorists alliance. He was elected as an
MEP with 152,196 preferential votes, the second-highest vote total of any candidate. In February 2025, Turek was reported to have met with representatives of the Iranian government for undisclosed reasons. On 30 May, Turek announced that he would lead
Motorists for Themselves in the
Central Bohemian Region in the
2025 Czech parliamentary election. He was elected to the
Chamber of Deputies as an
MP, with 20,232 preferential votes. On 7 January 2026, Czech President
Petr Pavel refused to appoint Turek as environment minister. In a letter to Prime Minister
Andrej Babiš, Pavel said he must protect fundamental constitutional values, including the rejection of totalitarian ideologies, arguing that Turek's past statements and conduct cast doubt on his loyalty to those values, such as remarks that praised or downplayed
Nazi Germany, and that Turek had repeatedly shown a lack of respect for the Czech legal order. On 12 January, Turek was appointed government commissioner for climate policy.
Controversies Turek was investigated by the police in 2017 for threatening an employee of the Saudi Arabian embassy in Prague by placing a drawing of a
gallows under the windscreen wiper of the employee's car and a bullet casing on the roof. He was recorded on camera during the act and confessed to the police. He defended his actions by stating that he was defending his girlfriend. The police eventually decided to treat the act as a misdemeanor, and Turek had to pay a
penalty fine. During the 2024 European election campaign, several old photos of Turek were circulated online, including one where he wore a golden helmet with a symbol used by the former Greek neo-Nazi party
Golden Dawn, one where he appeared to give a
Nazi salute from a car, and one featuring a candlestick with a
swastika. In a discussion on
CNN Prima News, Turek stated that he was a collector and that he also had a knife used by
SS soldiers, but he denied being a Nazi sympathizer. The Czech police opened an investigation into his gestures, which was concluded in November 2024 due to the
statute-barred case. Journalists have also uncovered further old photos of Turek, in which he was wearing a white racing helmet with a symbol used by the aerial-warfare branch of the
Wehrmacht Luftwaffe and a fighter wing of the Luftwaffe called
Jagdgeschwader 27. On 23 June 2025, the website Page Not Found reported that Turek had been accused by his former partner in a criminal complaint of domestic violence, threatening with a firearm, and rape. He denied the accusations. In October 2025, the newspaper
Deník N published an article with an archive of Facebook posts and comments by Turek, which he had later deleted, in which he repeatedly made openly racist, sexist, or homophobic statements, as well as numerous allusions to Hitler and
Mussolini. Some of his racist remarks targeted former American president
Barack Obama and
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. Turek called for his opponents (including politicians, students, and businessman
Petr Kellner) to be sent to
gas chambers, and he threatened them with physical assault. Turek denied authorship of the posts and called the article a deliberate attempt to discredit him. The Czech
anti-racist nonprofit published an online petition, calling on the chair of ANO,
Andrej Babiš, not to nominate Turek to the job of foreign minister, and on Czech President
Petr Pavel to not appoint him. The petition was signed by more than 8,000 people. The chair of Motorists,
Petr Macinka, announced that the party would file a criminal complaint against
Deník N and the authors of the article. On 14 October 2025, the Instagram account
Štít demokracie published 42 pages of deleted posts from Turek's Facebook, with timestamps and URLs, which had been sent to them anonymously. The screenshots were taken in June 2024. Turek's former friend Vojtěch Dobeš, a motoring journalist, later claimed responsibility for the screenshots. Dobeš confirmed the authenticity of Turek's deleted posts to the police and handed them other, as-yet unpublished, posts. ==Personal life==