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Police Tear-Gas CHP HQ, 90 Deputies Launch New Party

7/31/2026

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Summary

CHP Under Siege

Police teargassed the CHP’s Ankara headquarters in May 2026, causing 90 deputies to form the New (Yeni) party.
An appeal court reinstated Kemal Kiliçdaroglu, reducing the CHP to 44 seats, its third-smallest bloc.
The CHP won 37.8% of the vote in the March 2024 local elections, ahead of the AKP’s 35.4%.
After Ekrem Imamoglu’s March 2025 arrest on 142 offences, monthly mayor detentions and Kiliçdaroglu’s “purify” call triggered protests.

Summary

CHP Funding Drain

The New party lacks the CHP’s funding and base, hampering the Good, Future and DEVA parties.
Özel brands it a “social democrat” whose programme recognises Turkey’s religions, ethnicities, gender and sexual orientation and calls for full EU membership and a stronger NATO role.
Leaders cite the CHP’s abolition of the caliphate and women’s-rights advances and aim to attract students and marginalised voters who backed the CHP in the 1960s-70s.

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CHP Under Siege

Police teargassed the CHP’s Ankara headquarters in May 2026, causing 90 deputies to form the New (Yeni) party.
An appeal court reinstated Kemal Kiliçdaroglu, reducing the CHP to 44 seats, its third-smallest bloc.
The CHP won 37.8% of the vote in the March 2024 local elections, ahead of the AKP’s 35.4%.
After Ekrem Imamoglu’s March 2025 arrest on 142 offences, monthly mayor detentions and Kiliçdaroglu’s “purify” call triggered protests.

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