The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) staved off a major trial on allegations of vote-buying in an intraparty election in 2023, but more legal woes await it in 2026.
Türkiye’s oldest party, whose mayors face a spate of corruption allegations, will defend itself and its mayors in a string of ongoing cases.
The biggest among them concerns the Turkish media's “shady congress” in November 2023, at which current Chair Özgür Özel ended the long reign of Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. An Ankara court has dismissed the trial over alleged vote-buying by Özel and his associates during the 2023 intraparty election, but the former CHP members who are plaintiffs in the case h
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