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Posted on 05/24/2026 7:48:39 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
Hundreds of Turkish riot police used tear gas and forced their way into the Ankara headquarters of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on Sunday after a court removed the party’s leadership, Agence France-Presse journalists witnessed.
Party members had blocked the entrances of the building, defying a court order issued Thursday as part of an investigation into the CHP.
Police moved in to remove party leader Özgür Özel after supporters of former chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu tried to enter the headquarters.
Human Rights Watch on Saturday warned that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government was undermining Turkish democracy through “abusive tactics” against the CHP.
Turkish authorities last year jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, Erdoğan’s main political rival and the CHP’s candidate for the presidential election scheduled for 2028.
The court order on Thursday annulled Özel’s victory in the CHP’s 2023 leadership election and named Kılıçdaroğlu as interim leader.
Kılıçdaroğlu led the CHP for years but lost several elections to Erdoğan before Özel replaced him at the party congress in November 2023.
“The Republican People’s Party will from now on be on the streets or in the squares,” Özel said as he was forced out of the building.
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This has been going on for decades.
In Turkey? The law is ignored for those in power.
Yes, they are still a NATO member.
Lawfare on steroids..................coming soon to a country near you!..............
You missed it.
Live video is on the web showing tear gassing the CHP headquarters.
This is not fake.
Turkey Minute is a very reliable source. I was reading it when the journalist started his news outlet in Germany.
Fortunately, we have been able to put Trump in place before the Democratic Party was able to do this to America.
They certainly tried, though.
So, after they’re arrested, to do they send them to Turkish prisons?
Yep.
But remember, Turkey has no freedom of speech or the press.
Just like the Ottoman empire, that Erdo wants to be the Sultan over.
It’s already here! Where have you been?
Erdogan is a close friend of Donald J. Trump DJT praises him all the time.
In 2016 Putin called Erdogan to warn of a coup attempt that Obama may have had a hand in.
Erdogan likes interest rates to be moved around and he’s fired central bankers to make his point.
😁..........................
We’re gonna need to do that with the Democrat Party. Too much fraud and terrorism.
Darn... beat me to it again. I thought before reading, “the California Highway Patrol?? What has Ponch, John, and Grossman been up to now??”.
Somebody needs to 2nd Amendment Erdogan, the sooner the better.
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