Posted on 07/16/2025 9:26:20 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
A senior representative of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) at the country’s top election authority has said a court cannot legally annul the Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) 2023 leadership vote, in remarks published by the Nefes daily on Saturday.
Recep Özel, who represents the AKP at the Supreme Election Council (YSK), said any attempt by a civil court to overturn a YSK-validated leadership vote would “upend the entire system” and violate constitutional provisions governing election law.
This adds a new layer of controversy to the politically charged case that could see former CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu return to power.
The CHP, Turkey’s main opposition party, is bracing for a major leadership crisis as a court prepares to rule on whether to annul the party’s 2023 congress that brought current chairman Özgür Özel to the top position.
Former party leader Kılıçdaroğlu, who lost the chairmanship after 13 years in office, has signaled that he would accept a court-mandated return — despite growing opposition from within the party’s leadership, elected mayors and rank-and-file members.
The political stakes are high. If the Ankara court issues a ruling of “absolute nullity,” the results of the November 2023 congress would be void, and Kılıçdaroğlu — along with the former party assembly — would be reinstated by default.
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It has been many years since the CHP (Kemalists) were in power.
Turkish economy is horrible. Turkey gained NATO membership under the Kemalists.
Erdogan's Islamist Militias (including ISIS) are his brutal support system.
Syria Ping list.
Turkey is behind the takeover of Syria.
The pieces of the Middle East puzzle are moving.
Erdogan in a normal nation could not twist reality to keep power.
But this is Turkey.
I don’t know much about Turkey under erdogan.
If there any hope for the opposition parties?
Or has Ataturks vision been utterly shattered?
Ataturk (Kemal) brought Turkey from the backwardness of the Ottoman Empire. He was the only General of the Ottoman Empire that managed to hold his country together.
Erdogan dreams of putting the Ottoman Empire back the way it was.
If the CHP was back in power, they would not be run by Jihadi’s. Kemal was harsh, but not backward.
This gives you a glimpse of what Erdogan’s Turkey is. It is run like the Ottoman Empire was. Islamist Dictatorship.
Jailed İstanbul mayor convicted over remarks criticizing controversial prosecutor (Jul 16, 2025)
Erdogan would never be elected except for manipulation of the “Legal” process.
The Ottoman Empire never had freedom of the Press. When the Guttenberg Printing press was invented, it was outlawed by the Ottoman government. I don't think that changed until the Ottoman Empire was split up after WWI.
I thought I had read about Jewish, Greek and Armenian printing from the 1600s onwards?
The Ottoman empire did not allow the printing press for 300 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXi_C7H1ZU0
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