Türkiye’s Justice and Development Party on Monday dismissed claims that the ruling party was involved in the opposition’s turmoil, saying the Republican People’s Party (CHP) was consumed by an internal power struggle "more chaotic than the Middle East."
“The AK Party is not involved in this incident in any way,” party spokesperson Ömer Çelik told reporters in Ankara. “This is entirely an internal conflict within the CHP.”
His remarks came as the opposition continues to reel from a court decision that annulled CHP’s 2023 congress and reinstated former leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, setting off competing leadership claims and violent clashes during a police-enforced eviction at party headquarters in Ankara.
Çelik accused CHP figures of trying to shift blame outward rather than address their internal divisions.
“When they cannot solve their own problems, they try to drag the AK Party and our president into it,” he said, describing such efforts as an attempt to “cover up political inadequacy.”
