18th Republican People's Party Extraordinary Convention

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said his opinion that the July 15, 2016, coup attempt was a "controlled" one was strengthening and that he had a file concerning this. When reporters asked him where the file was, he answered, "I can hold a meeting later where I will reveal it." 

Proposed constitutional amendments will do nothing to solve Turkey's lingering problems, according to the head of the main opposition party. 

"Which problem of Turkey will be solved with this constitution change?" Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu asked during a rally held in the Black Sea province of Amasya on March 15.

More Turkish journalists are currently in jail than were in prison under junta rule in the 1980s, main opposition leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said, slamming the government for staging a "civilian coup" in an attempt to stage a purge after the July 2016 coup.

"The number of jailed journalists has exceeded 150. It had never happened during the period of any coups," he said.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has once again slammed government-pushed constitutional amendments for a shift to a presidential system.

"I want to once again remind you that the presidency is not a post either for tyranny over the nation or for the unlimited ego of one person," Kılıçdaroğlu wrote on his official Twitter account on Jan. 13.

An indictment prepared by a local chief public prosecutor's office in Istanbul has demanded up to two years in prison for main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on charges of "overtly insulting" President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's son in remarks made two years ago. 

On the eve of the opening of the Turkish parliament's new legislative year, social democratic main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said on Sept.

The leader of Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has harshly criticized President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's recent remarks deriding the 1923 Lausanne Treaty, which was the cornerstone of the modern Turkish republic, saying that "no one has the right to betray his/her history."

The leader of Turkey's main opposition party has criticized the government for not touching politics and politicians as part of the ongoing probe in the aftermath of the July 15 failed coup attempt, including mayors who provided enormous financial support to the Gülenist network. 

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) will bring all decree laws (KHK) issued during the state of emergency, beyond the initial one reached through consensus with the government, to the Constitutional Court, party leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has told daily Hürriyet. 

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has slammed the government for taking indiscriminate post-coup attempt measures and carrying out a "witch hunt" against independent media, academics and teachers in Turkey.