18th Republican People's Party Extraordinary Convention

Muharrem İnce, the main opposition Republican People's Party's (CHP) presidential candidate in the June elections, has once again defied party leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu to bring the party to an extraordinary convention, in what is seen as a major leadership challenge to the CHP's longtime chair.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) lawmaker Yaşar Tüzün said the number of CHP delegates who have signed to bring the party to extraordinary congress have exceeded the sufficient number of signatures to challenge CHP chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu's leadership by defeated presidential candidate Muharrem İnce. 

Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on July 18 called a recent train accident due in Çorlu as “murder” because the necessary precautions had not been met by authorities.

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the chairman of the Republican People's Party (CHP) has rejected calls for a snap convention from the party's defeated presidential candidate Muharrem İnce, expressing his frustration over the latter's initiative.

Muharrem İnce, the presidential candidate of the Republican People's Party (CHP), said he urged CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu to hold a convention for a change of the party's leadership and offered him to become the honorary leader of the social-democratic party.

Main opposition Republican People's Party's (CHP) presidential candidate Muharrem İnce responded to inner-party debates and said he would not step up against CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu for the leadership, adding that he would continue his mission to be "the president of 81 million people."

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu refuted assessments that his party was defeated in the June 24 polls and said "no one can describe us as unsuccessful."

An Istanbul court has ordered main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu to pay immaterial compensation of 142,000 Turkish Liras in a criminal complaint case filed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has called for the resignation of Aysel Demirel, a member of the Council of State, who posted a tweet last week criticizing the CHP's presidential candidate Muharrem İnce. 

CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu (Photo: Anadolu Agency)