Opposition Base Rallies Behind Ousted CHP Leader as Court-Installed Chairman Slams Party Mayors - Turkish Minute
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Turkish democracy on trial: how Erdoğan’s rule has undermined justice and weakened his rivals
There has been unrest across Turkey after an appeals court annulled the results of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) 2023 leadership election, deposing the popular winner Özgür Özel. Özel’s removal, based on the the court’s decision that the CHP’s 38th congress was void from the beginning, overturning an earlier court finding rejecting allegations of electoral irregularities, has left the CHP with a 77-year-old party veteran, Kemal Kılıçdaroğl…
Turkey's largest opposition party is in an existential crisis. On Saturday, the former and current head of the CHP turned to their supporters at parallel events. A visit on the ground shows the displeasure about self-defilement and a great rage at the government.
In the Turkish opposition party CHP, since a court ruling, it is unclear who will set the course in the future: the CHP leader Özel deposed by the verdict or his predecessor Kilicdaroglu? Now both opponents have mobilized their supporters.
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu entered the party headquarters of the opposition party for the first time after a court installed him as party leader. At the same time thousands demonstrated for his deposed predecessor Özgür Özel.
Following the removal of the leadership of Turkey's largest opposition party, the CHP, large crowds gathered in Ankara on Saturday to support either the former or the interim party leader, who delivered speeches simultaneously. While the court-appointed leader, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, spoke in front of the CHP headquarters, the ousted CHP leader, Özgür Özel, addressed a crowd in Güvenpark near the party's provincial headquarters.
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