The Chief Prosecutor of Ankara has approved an indictment that alleges irregularities in the selection of a new chairman for the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP). The indictment focuses on a party congress that took place in November 2023 and resulted in the selection of a chairman, current CHP leader Özgür Özel.

Özgür Özel replaced longtime CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, following the latter’s loss to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in presidential elections in May 2023.

The indictment approved by the Ankara Chief Prosecutor lists Kılıçdaroğlu as the ‘aggrieved party’ and 12 defendants as ‘suspects’. Among the 12 defendants are currently imprisoned Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, along with other party names such as the CHP’s Istanbul head Özgür Çelik, İzmir Mayor Cemil Tugay, and Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district mayor Rıza Akpolat, who was imprisoned on corruption charges in January.

The indictment threatens to impose up to three-year prison sentences on each of the 12 suspects.

The 12 defendants are charged with having........

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