What to Know about Turkey's Deepening Democratic Crisis
On Sunday, riot police stormed the headquarters of Turkey’s main opposition party to evict its ousted leadership, testing the country’s fragile democracy.
Tear gas and rubber bullets were fired inside the headquarters of the Republican People's Party (CHP) in Ankara, where party officials and supporters, including leader Özgür Özel, were holed up for days. Footage from local media showed police breaking through a makeshift barricade.
The standoff between the CHP and Turkish police comes days after a court nullified Özel’s 2023 election as chairperson of the party, in what the Human Rights Watch (HRW) has claimed to be an attempt by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's government to "sideline the main political opposition in ways that profoundly undermine civil and political rights and Turkey's democratic process."
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