Peloni: It is interesting that as the West is crippled with a judiciary which weaponizes legal codes and norms to support the establishment, even to the point of eliminating opposition candidates with ease, the same standard of corruption and social failing is not being adopted inside Erdogan’s Turkey. A very interesting development.
MEMRI.org | June 10, 2026
The results of the March 2024 local elections in Turkey in which the CHP, under the leadership of Özgür Özel, defeated the AKP for the first time in the 22 years of the AKP’s rule. Image via Memri.org
On May 21, 2026, the 36th Civil Chamber of the Ankara Regional Court of Appeals ruled that the 38th Ordinary Congress, held November 4-5, 2023, and 21st Extraordinary Congress, held September 21, 2025, of Turkey’s leading opposition party, the Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (CHP), were “absolutely null and void” due to corruption, it said, in the proceedings.[1] This ruling created a legislative and judicial crisis in the CHP that is ongoing.
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