Thousands of people marched through the center of Turkey's capital, Ankara, on Saturday in support of Turkish opposition leader Ozgur Ozel.
The demonstration was held to protest Ozel's removal from his post as head of the Republican People's Party, or CHP after an Ankara court ruled on May 21 that the 2023 CHP congress that elected Ozel as chairman was invalid, due to alleged irregularities.
The court provisionally reinstated Ozel's controversial predecessor, Kemal Kilicdaroglu.
The CHP protested the ruling, taking to the streets in the aftermath. The party and its supporters argue that the ruling is politically motivated, aimed at weakening the opposition by removing Ozel from contention for the 2028 presidential election.
The man seen as the most likely opponent to challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the former Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, was jailed last year amid a wider clampdown on the CHP.
