by TurkeyPurge | Jul 18, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan filed a criminal case against Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and 72 deputies on accusations of insulting him by posting a caricature of him deemed to be offensive on social media. The caricature, called...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 13, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), has been ordered by a Turkish court to pay TL 95,000 ($19,500) in non-pecuniary damages for allegedly insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is also chairman of...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 2, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A legal investigation was launched against the main opposition Republican Peoples’ Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu and all other party assembly members, according to Turkish media. The investigation was launched a year ago after CHP said in a statement that the...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 15, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Celal Celik, a judge-turned lawyer representing the main opposition Republican Peoples’ Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu, was detained at his home in Ankara on Friday. The detention was carried out as part of an Istanbul-based investigation into the Gulen...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 4, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Fatih Tezcan, a pro-government public speaker and columnist, on Monday implied that main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu would be assassinated before he completes a “March of Justice” he launched on June 15. “I hope he...