, Turkey’s main opposition party, dodged a bullet on October 24th. A court in Ankara, the capital, threw out a lawsuit that could have ousted the party’s leader, Ozgur Ozel, and replaced him with a trustee. The case rested on claims that the convention in 2023 where Mr Ozel was elected as chair of the CHP had been tainted by vote-buying. It was widely seen as a ploy backed by the government of Turkey’s autocratic president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.){kind=link}
The Economist, October 30, 2025
President Erdogan uses the courts to go after the last big opposition party
The Republican People’s Party (CHP), Turkey’s main opposition party, dodged a bullet on October 24th. A court in Ankara, the capital, threw out a lawsuit that could have ousted the party’s leader, Ozgur Ozel, and replaced him with a trustee. The case rested on claims that the convention in 2023 where Mr Ozel was elected as chair of the CHP had been tainted by vote-buying. It was widely seen as a ploy backed by the government of Turkey’s autocratic president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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