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demirozcane Mayıs 17, 2026
Erdoğan and CHP: A fierce battle continues in Türkiye’s political struggle. Now Erdoğan is using all the power of the state to sideline the CHP. The Turkish President has shown he will use tough tactics to suppress the popular opposition party, but his future decisions may still be influenced by domestic protests, economic factors, and geopolitical developments.
On September 15, a Turkish court postponed its decision until October 24 on whether to cancel the November 2023 congress of the country’s main opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), based on allegations of irregularities. Declaring the congress “completely invalid” could pave the way for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to replace the current CHP leader, Özgür Özel, with a candidate of his choosing. The court’s measured postponement came after large protests across Turkey, led by the CHP, in response to the case.
Türkiye’s descent from democracy under Erdoğan’s rule is well-documented. According to Freedom House, in 2010, Turkey was in the same group as Southeast European countries like Albania regarding democratic freedoms; now it ranks less highly, including Middle Eastern countries like Iraq. But even considering this deterioration, Erdoğan’s all-out assault on the country’s leading opposition party, and the arrest of Istanbul CHP Mayor and potential presidential candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu on March 19, is strikingly brazen. Fundamental questions arise: Why is Erdoğan intensifying the crackdown now, what are his goals and next steps, and will the CHP survive?
Popular Mayor vs. President Forever
Since becoming prime minister in 2003, Erdoğan has won fifteen nationwide elections, some of which were referendums. The strong economic growth he achieved after coming to power allowed him to build a support base that admired him. Meanwhile, the ineffective opposition led by the CHP, which had received just over 20 percent of the vote for almost two decades, greatly aided Erdoğan. However, with the Turkish economy unstable since 2018, the President has had to rely on his control over electoral boards, state institutions, courts, and the media to turn votes in his favor.
The entry of İmamoğlu into politics, winning the Istanbul mayoral race in 2019 and 2024, shifted this balance; the CHP politician defeated the president’s mayoral candidates despite the advantages afforded by Erdoğan’s incumbent office. A charismatic and populist social democrat, İmamoğlu built a broader electoral coalition than Erdoğan’s. Following his overwhelming victory in 2024, the mayor began signaling that he would challenge Erdoğan in the next presidential election. This is cited as a likely reason for his arrest in March. Now, İmamoğlu, facing charges of money laundering and contract mismanagement based on the testimonies of anonymous witnesses, will undoubtedly remain under legal scrutiny as long as Erdoğan is president.
The CHP’s Comeback
The mayor’s arrest doesn’t solve the president’s larger “CHP problem”—the spectacular comeback of an opposition party that seemed almost dead just a few years ago. The CHP, the party of Türkiye’s founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, embraced secularism in the twentieth century, a clear separation between politics and Islam. In the 1970s, under the charismatic leader Bülent Ecevit, it also adopted a social democratic and pro-working-class identity. However, the party’s popularity plummeted in the 1990s due to ineffective leadership, loss of its working-class base, and the defection of nationalist voters to other parties.
The reasons for the CHP’s recent resurgence are as follows:
İmamoğlu reunited the CHP with lower-middle-class and working-class voters, restoring a key component of the party’s historic brand in Istanbul, the country’s largest city and financial and manufacturing hub. Ankara-based Mayor Mansur Yavaş, who prides himself on his Turkish nationalist past, revitalized the party’s nationalist identity in Türkiye’s capital and the second-largest metropolitan area in the heart of Anatolia. Party leader Özgür Özel, hailing from Manisa province, which borders İzmir, Türkiye’s third-largest and most secular metropolis, revitalized the CHP by uniting its three ideological wings – secular, Turkish nationalist, and social democratic – under a single leadership. Finally… Reklamlar
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