Turkish opposition leader Ozgur Ozel confirmed on July 22 that in the face of the Erdogan administration “political coup” that has thrown the 103-year-old Republican People’s Party (CHP) into crisis, he will resign his post and create a new party. In parliament, speaking to 80 CHP lawmakers, Ozel s»»»

ISTANBUL: Turkiye’s government pressed on with its campaign against the main opposition CHP on Saturday with dozens of arrests targeting a district in the capital Ankara that is run by the party. Some 27 people were arrested in early-morning raids in Cankaya, out of a total of 36 named in a warrant»»»

“The shadow of this great tree cannot shelter the corrupted and those engaged in sins,” Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, former leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) said in a video published on his social media account on Wednesday. “The great tree” was Türkiye’s oldest party mired with»»»

Via Middle East Eye A court in Ankara has dismissed a corruption case that sought to unseat the leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), saying it had no substance. The case against Ozgur Ozel, which focused on alleged vote-buying at the CHP primary in November 2023, was rejec»»»

Court-appointee Gursel Tekin entered CHP base with riot police after clashes, as party denounces political 'coup' After hours of clashes with protesters, a court-appointed interim head of the Istanbul branch of Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) entered the party’s building un»»»

ANKARA - A mayor from Turkey's main opposition party joined President Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AK Party on Thursday amid a crackdown on the opposition in which 15 mayors have been detained. Ozlem Cercioglu, mayor of the western city of Aydin since 2009 and previously a lawmaker for the Republican Pe»»»

ANKARA, April 6, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Turkey's main opposition party will hold an extraordinary congress on Sunday to re-elect its leader Ozgur Ozel, rallying support as the party weathers the government's crackdown on the country's largest protest movement in years. Turkey has clamped down on demonstr»»»

CHP leader calls for former mayor’s release, denounces arrests of protesters in growing clashes over Turkish democracy. Hundreds of thousands of protesters in Turkiye’s Istanbul have taken to the streets again, rallying against the government’s decision to imprison the city’s popular mayor. The mas»»»

ANKARA — Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has blamed opposition parties for provoking a "movement of violence" as protests in the country continued for a sixth night.Unrest began in Istanbul last Wednesday when the city's mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, Erdogan's main presidential rival, was detained »»»

TURKEY-POLITICS/ARRESTS:Turkey arrests opposition mayor accused of tender rigging ANKARA, - Authorities in Turkey arrested a mayor from the main opposition Republican People's Party early on Friday, after prosecutors accused him of rigging public tenders, an accusation his party dismisses as politi»»»