Haluk Koç

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said his party is in favor of a peaceful country in which all citizens can live in unity and comfort, in a visit to the Felicity Party (SP), which also stood against the constitutional amendments in the April 16 referendum. 

The reason why President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is so insistent on shifting Turkey to a presidential system of governance is because he is afraid of being prosecuted and therefore wants to "secure his own future," main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) head Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said.

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) will soon begin a series of public rallies against the government's bid to change Turkey to a presidential system of government, saying planned constitutional amendments will bring about authoritarian rule and cause the division of Turkey. 

A notorious convicted criminal has publicly issued death threats against academics and intellectuals who called on the Turkish government to end security operations in Southeast Anatolia, just a day after President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an labeled more than 1,000 national and international academics as "poor excuses for intellectuals."

Turkey's ruling and main opposition parties have agreed on the need for a new constitution which will highlight democratic norms and human rights in a libertarian approach, during a meeting between the parties' leaders, which also brought about a joint understanding to fasten the adoption of legal arrangements required by the European Union.

The spokesperson of Turkey's main opposition party has said Turkey needs a new constitution bearing civil liberties, unlike the current one, which was made after the country's 1980 military coup.

A leading figure from Turkey?s main opposition party displayed documents during a televised interview on Oct. 22 which he claimed to be identical to a protocol between the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK).

Turkey's main opposition party has criticized the minor opposition party, Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), vowing not to let votes slide from their party to the latter with the idea of letting it pass the 10 percent threshold required to hold seats at parliament.

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) has ignored the results of the June 7 election and Turkey, for first time in its political history, will go to early elections because parties failed to form a government, Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy chairman Haluk Koç  said on Aug. 25.

A meeting between the leaders of Turkey?s Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Republican People?s Party (CHP) failed to produce a breakthrough on a coalition government, but doors were left open, with both sides announcing that a final decision will be made later this week.