Kılıçdaroğlu-led CHP board seeks expulsions
Türkiye’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has referred nine lawmakers close to Özgür Özel to its High Disciplinary Board with a request for permanent expulsion, party spokesperson Müslim Sarı said on June 10.
Özel was suspended from the CHP chairmanship by a court ruling in May that annulled the party’s 2023 congress and provisionally reinstated former chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and his previous party organs.
Sarı said the decision was taken unanimously at a Central Executive Board meeting chaired by Kılıçdaroğlu.
The lawmakers referred to discipline are group deputy chairs Ali Mahir Başarır and Gökhan Günaydın, former deputy chairs Burhanettin Bulut, Özgür Karabat, Ensar Aytekin and Nurhayat Altaca Kayışoğlu, former High Disciplinary Board chair Turan Taşkın Özer, and lawmakers Veli Ağbaba and Umut Akdoğan.
