Socialist International Backs Ousted CHP Leader, Urges Court-Installed Kılıçdaroğlu to Call Party Vote - Stockholm Center for Freedom
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Turkey’s Opposition Party Is Mistaking Defeat for Virtue
Turkey’s Republican People’s Party (CHP) is both the country’s founding party and its main opposition force. The trouble is, after nearly a quarter century of Justice and Development Party (AKP) dominance, the CHP still does not know who it represents or how to effectively challenge for power.On May 21, 2026, a court in Ankara annulled the 2023 congress that had brought Özgür Özel to the leadership of the CHP, removed Özel and his team as an int…
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, now in effect an autocrate, if not a dictator, has spent the last year to dismantle the only Turkish party able to defeat him at the ballot box. Last week, through a court of "Appello tameata " as by now all has reached its leader. The judiciary has in fact removed Özgür Özel from the presidency of the Republican People's Party (Chp). It is the central left party that has constituted - thanks to the creator of the party its…
Socialist International backs ousted CHP leader, urges court-installed Kılıçdaroğlu to call party vote - Stockholm Center for Freedom
Socialist International said on Thursday it would continue to recognize Özgür Özel as the legitimate leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), rejecting a court decision that removed its elected leadership and reinstated Özel’s predecessor, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. According to Turkish Minute, the global alliance of socialist, social democratic and labor parties said its Ethics Committee […]
While Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, who returned to the CHP chairmanship thanks to the Ankara Regional Court of Justice's "absolute nullity" ruling, is preparing to address party members tomorrow, the Özgür Özel faction, which removed him from office, is mobilizing delegates for an extraordinary congress.
The Socialist International, in a statement regarding the "absolute nullity" ruling concerning the CHP, announced that it will continue to recognize CHP Chairman Özgür Özel and the current party leadership until the case is concluded. The statement also called on Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu to hold an extraordinary congress that is "transparent, democratic, and inclusive." In its statement regarding the "absolute nullity" ruling concerning the CHP, the S…
The Socialist International, in a statement regarding the "absolute nullity" ruling, announced that it will continue to recognize CHP Chairman Özgür Özel and the current party leadership until the case is concluded. The statement also called on Kılıçdaroğlu to convene an extraordinary party congress.
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