US EditionGraft Case Piles Pressure on Turkey's Main Opposition
- Kilicdaroglu, leader of the main opposition CHP party in Turkey, is accused of collaborating with the authoritarian government to regain power in the party.
- Imamoglu, a CHP politician jailed in a controversial case, criticized Kilicdaroglu and said he felt betrayed by his remarks about negotiating with the government.
- Experts say if Kilicdaroglu takes over the CHP leadership, it would weaken the opposition and give President Erdogan more room to negotiate with Kurdish militants and change the constitution.
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Taipei TimesGraft case piles pressure on Turkey’s main opposition
A court hearing that could upend the leadership of Turkey's main opposition CHP is the latest bid to hobble the party behind a wave of spring protests that shook the government, analysts say. The hearing, which takes place on Monday at an Ankara court, could render null and void the result of a leadership primary
Three and a half months after the arrest of the leading opposition politician Ekrem Imamoglu, a court in Turkey decides on the possible dismissal of the party leader of the largest opposition party CHP. In the trial, the judges in the capital Ankara on Monday could declare the congress of left nationalists held in November 2023 "absolutely void" on which the current party leader Özgür Özel was elected. The trial is about the accusation of electo…
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Salzburger NachrichtenThree and a half months after the arrest of leading opposition politician Ekrem İmamoğlu, a court in Turkey is ruling on the possible removal of the leader of the largest opposition party, the CHP. In the proceedings, judges in the capital Ankara could declare the congress of left-wing nationalists held in November 2023, at which the current party leader, Özgür Özel, was elected, "absolutely null and void" on Monday.
NECİP F. BAHADIR | COMMENT Deniz Baykal suffered from intra-party conflicts. He used to say, “In Anatolia, they don’t marry their daughters to a feuding house… Why would they vote for a feuding party?” Of course, after he sat in the ‘chairman’s seat’… Before that, he was always on the side of conflicts. He was the head of a faction. Even the encyclopedia gave the ‘Baykal faction’ as an example after writing the ‘faction’ article. When I read Asl…
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