Istanbul’s jailed mayor, Ekrem Imamoğlu, appeared before a Turkish court on Monday on charges of threatening the city’s ...

After spending nearly three days in intensive care, Manisa Metropolitan Mayor Ferdi Zeyrek, who passed away following an ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reached across the aisle on Saturday to personally call CHP leader Özgür Özel with heartfelt ...

"No one can come to lead CHP without an election. Former chairs wouldn’t accept this, and neither would MR. Kemal ...

However, what has happened so far should be seen as ‘first steps’ from both sides. The opposition's first steps were good; ...

Turkish authorities have suspended five elected mayors amid a crackdown on opposition, with Istanbul's chief prosecutor ...

CHP leader Özel said, “We will neither hand over Atatürk’s party to a trustee nor surrender it to anyone through judicial ...

Turkish authorities are intensifying their crackdown on Istanbul's imprisoned mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu. The move comes as ...

Now, by force of circumstance, the leading voice of the protest movement, CHP President Özgür Özel, has repeatedly condemned the arrests. After visiting the mayor in Silivri prison on the ...

Özgür Özel, leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), was slapped by an assailant on Sunday as he was leaving an event in Istanbul. The incident, captured on camera, showed ...

So too did the the CHP’s current chairman Özgür Özel, not least since the arrest of Imamoglu. Rather than a lack of a viable alternatives, the CHP’s recent dilemma has been how to manage the presence ...

Özgür Özel, head of the Republican People’s Party, or CHP, told the Financial Times it had “no plan” to substitute İmamoğlu but recognised that it needed to sustain momentum without him ...