Eren Erdem

Main opposition chairman Republican People's Party (CHP) Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has announced the new top executive board following the defeat in the parliamentary and presidential polls.

An Istanbul court has ruled for the release of Eren Erdem, a former lawmaker from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), under judicial control. 

Turkish prosecutors in Istanbul issued a warrant for Eren Erdem, a former lawmaker from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), only minutes after a court ruled for his release on Jan. 7.

A murder weapon that made the headlines on June 8 due to the suspect's allegations that he obtained it from outside the police headquarters in Ankara during July 2016 coup attempt, has been determined to be a MP-5 type machine gun, whose sale is banned in Turkey and is permitted to be used only by security forces, according to an export report prepared by to the General Command of Gendarmerie.<

A murder weapon that made the headlines on June 8 due to the suspect's allegations that he obtained it from outside the police headquarters in Ankara during July coup attempt, has been determined to be a MP-5 type rifle, whose sale is banned in Turkey and is permitted to be used only by security forces, according to an export report prepared by to the General Command of Gendarmerie.

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli slammed Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) on May 16 for "acting in line with" the Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). 

Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Işık is preparing to press legal charges against main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Istanbul deputy Eren Erdem after the latter claimed that the minister met with a key figure in Turkey's failed July 2016 coup attempt, Adil Öksüz, just a day before the putsch.

Arrested People's Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş has said he knew he would be arrested 15 days before his arrest, during a visit from a committee of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) on Nov. 30. 

A CHP committee that featured lawmakers Fikri Sağlar, Eren Erdem, Ali Şeker and Orhan Sarıbal visited the arrested HDP co-chair at Edirne Prison.

The sole member of a leftist Turkish organization who was convicted and imprisoned eight years ago on charges of attempting to "change the constitutional order by force," was released on Nov. 28 after completing his prison term. 

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) presented a motion for parliament to research the social causes of hate crimes on Nov. 11, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.