{"id":42278,"date":"2023-11-05T04:27:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T04:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innodebt.com\/business\/turkeys-opposition-ousts-longtime-leader-after-general-election-defeat\/"},"modified":"2023-11-05T04:27:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T04:27:16","slug":"turkeys-opposition-ousts-longtime-leader-after-general-election-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innodebt.com\/?p=42278","title":{"rendered":"Turkey\u2019s opposition ousts longtime leader after general election defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description\"><span>Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=eb6e8736-b6d9-4b24-b280-eef85cb4ebc3\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Turkey\u2019s main opposition party has ousted its longtime leader Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu following his comprehensive loss against Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan in a presidential election earlier this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Republican People\u2019s party (CHP) voted early on Sunday to replace K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu with \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel, a veteran lawmaker who vowed to shake up the organisation\u2019s strategy ahead of local elections scheduled for March next year. <\/p>\n<p>The decision marks the most significant shift in power in Turkey\u2019s opposition since K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu became CHP leader in 2010.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been proposing a bold and determined policy against the embarrassing and passive politics pursued by our party for a while,\u201d \u00d6zel said as the CHP party congress got under way in Ankara on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The first round of the vote for party chair was inconclusive, with neither K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu nor \u00d6zel, the favourites in the race, garnering a majority of votes among the more than 1,300 party delegates who took part in the poll. \u00d6zel clinched a majority with 812 votes in the second round, which stretched into the early hours of Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>The vote for party chair will set the stage for how the CHP, the secularist party of Turkey\u2019s founding father Mustafa Kemal Atat\u00fcrk, will prepare for next year\u2019s municipal elections.\u00a0It comes a time when many analysts warn Erdo\u011fan is sliding towards autocracy. <\/p>\n<p>K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu led a six-party coalition in the May 2023 presidential vote, which was seen as the opposition\u2019s best shot in years at unseating Erdo\u011fan after two decades in power.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His loss, after an unprecedented run-off, prompted widespread frustration among opposition members, some of whom have questioned whether the soft-spoken 74-year-old was the right candidate to challenge Erdo\u011fan, who is known for his fiery rhetoric.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some party insiders have also said that K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu made too many concessions to smaller political groups that joined the six-party opposition alliance, while others have complained that he delegated party management to a small group of senior officials and consultants rather than seeking counsel from a broader group of stakeholders. <\/p>\n<p>Erdo\u011fan has said his Justice and Development party (AKP) will fight vigorously to win back control of Turkey\u2019s two biggest cities, Istanbul and Ankara, the capital, in next year\u2019s local races. The AKP lost control of both mayoral seats in 2019 as Turkey\u2019s rolling economic crises dented confidence in the ruling party.<\/p>\n<p>\u00d6zel, a 49-year-old former pharmacist, is a longtime party grandee and had been seen as an ally of K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu. He is now calling for reform both in how the party is managed and how it approaches the upcoming elections, vowing on Saturday to take an inclusive approach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI promise a policy that will touch Kurdish, T\u00fcrke, Alevi, Sunniye, rightwing, leftist, poor and precarious workers,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Additional reporting by Funja G\u00fcler in Ankara<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/eb6e8736-b6d9-4b24-b280-eef85cb4ebc3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Turkey\u2019s main opposition party has ousted its longtime leader Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu following his comprehensive loss against Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan in a presidential election earlier this year.\u00a0 Members of the Republican People\u2019s party (CHP) voted early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Turkey\u2019s opposition ousts longtime leader after general election defeat | Innodebt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her 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