Türkiye: Court Removes Leadership of Main Opposition Party
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The European Union has criticised Özel, chairman of the largest Turkish opposition party.
The chairman of the largest Turkish opposition party CHP, Özgür Özel, has announced resistance from the party headquarters in Ankara. "As long as not the members of the CHP, but the judicial authorities of the AKP decide who is to lead the CHP, I remain in this building and go nowhere, he wrote on platform X. As reported, Özel had been deposed by a court on Thursday. A first legal objection was rejected. Further appeals should follow. Since Thur…
Turkey remains shaken by a major judicial decision. On Thursday 21 May 2026, a court in Ankara suspended the leadership of the main opposition party, the Republican People's Party (CPP), including its leader, Özgür Özel, for alleged "frauds" at a party congress at the end of 2023. The failed leadership denounces a political manoeuvre by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and swears to "resist". An era of great uncertainty is opening up for the main …
The largest opposition party in Turkey is threatening to split, which is more than right for the president.
The deposed CHP leader Özel wants to go back to office. But with a first objection he failed in a Turkish court. Özel wants to continue to fight and protest. The leadership of the opposition party takes over its predecessor for the time being.[more]]>
Türkiye: Court Removes Leadership of Main Opposition Party
A court decision ordering the removal of the party chair and leadership of Türkiye’s main opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), is the latest deeply damaging blow to the rule of law, democracy and human rights in Türkiye, Human Rights Watch said today.
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