{"id":110373,"date":"2026-06-17T17:29:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/110373\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:29:16","slug":"turkeys-chp-faces-fresh-leadership-fight-as-ousted-chairman-pushes-new-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/110373\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey\u2019s CHP faces fresh leadership fight as ousted chairman pushes new vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Ozel-Kilicdaroglu.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"399\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- alt=\"\" title=\"O\u0308zel-K\u0131l\u0131c\u0327darog\u0306lu\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Ozel-Kilicdaroglu.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"399\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Ozel-Kilicdaroglu.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"O\u0308zel-K\u0131l\u0131c\u0327darog\u0306lu\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turkey\u2019s main opposition Republican People\u2019s Party (CHP) is headed for a new leadership fight after supporters of ousted party chairman \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel submitted petitions Wednesday calling for an extraordinary congress to challenge former leader Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu, who was reinstated by a court ruling in May, <a href=\"https:\/\/turkishminute.com\" type=\"link\" id=\"turkishminute.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Turkish Minute<\/a> reported, citing Agence France-Presse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Ankara court annulled the CHP\u2019s 2023 leadership election, citing alleged vote-buying, and ordered K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu, who had lost the chairmanship to \u00d6zel at that congress, to return as party leader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ruling triggered protests from the CHP, which has gained support in opinion polls since defeating President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan\u2019s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the 2024 local elections. Police later entered the party\u2019s headquarters in Ankara amid tensions over the court decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00d6zel, a vocal critic of Erdo\u011fan, has rejected the ruling and called for an extraordinary congress, saying the party cannot be run by a leadership imposed through the courts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 800 CHP delegates had submitted petitions by Wednesday demanding a congress to elect a party leader, a party source told Agence France-Presse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The petitions were delivered to CHP headquarters in Ankara and meet the threshold required under party bylaws to convene an extraordinary congress within 45 days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Political observers say K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu, who faced heavy criticism after a series of election losses, is likely to try to delay the congress and block any challenge to his leadership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The court ruling has thrown Turkey\u2019s oldest political party into one of the deepest leadership crises in its history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu led the CHP for more than a decade before being voted out at the 2023 congress, five months after losing to Erdo\u011fan in a closely contested presidential election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CHP says the court ruling and separate investigations targeting its mayors and municipal officials are part of a government-backed effort to weaken the opposition. The government denies political interference and says the judiciary acts independently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turkey\u2019s main opposition Republican People\u2019s Party (CHP) is headed for a new leadership fight after supporters of ousted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[83],"tags":[48249,2031,425,55755,33603,429,8632,314,430,131,132,155],"class_list":["post-110373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-stockholm","tag-2023-chp-congress","tag-crackdown-on-opposition","tag-democracy","tag-extraordinary-congress","tag-kemal-kilicdaroglu","tag-oppression","tag-ozgur-ozel","tag-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-republican-peoples-party-chp","tag-stockholm","tag-sweden","tag-turkey"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116766636249893519","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}