Deposed Turkish opposition leader forms ‘New Party’ to challenge Erdogan
The breakaway group says the new party will become parliament’s main opposition, with 91 lawmakers and a challenge to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
- On Tuesday, opposition leader Ozgur Ozel announced his resignation from the Republican People's Party to establish a new political movement after a court order stripped him of his chairmanship.
- An appeals court ruling in May 2026 annulled the 2023 party congress vote, citing irregularities, and reinstated former leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu, effectively stripping Ozel of his leadership role.
- Addressing more than 80 lawmakers, Ozel described the ruling as a politically motivated "coup" amid a two-year legal crackdown, expecting many of the 135 CHP legislators to defect.
- Criminal investigations alleging corruption in CHP-run municipalities have led to hundreds of detentions, including Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, imprisoned since March last year.
- Analysts suggest this internal chaos could boost President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's prospects for the 2028 election, while the government denies judicial interference and the new party Yeni Parti launches this week.
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After the arrests and sentences that weakened them, the ruling class of the Chp reorganizes: 95 MPs follow the former leader dismissed and adhere to the nascent New Party
Turkey: Persecuted Opposition Leader to Create Breakaway Party to Challenge Erdogan
In this FrontPage Magazine article, Christine Douglass-Williams reports that persecuted Turkish opposition leader Özgür Özel is launching a breakaway party to challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, potentially uniting the opposition and threatening Erdoğan’s hold on power ahead of the 2028 election. Özgür Özel, the deposed leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), announced...
The crisis of the leading opposition party CHP, triggered by a court ruling, is intensifying: Ex-Chairman Özgür Özel has announced that he will leave the party and start a new one.
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