{"id":601725,"date":"2026-05-24T17:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T17:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/601725\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T17:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T17:31:09","slug":"turkish-police-storm-opposition-offices-after-leaders-ousted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/601725\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish police storm opposition offices after leaders ousted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Human Rights Watch warned on Saturday that Erdo\u011fan&#8217;s government was undermining Turkish democracy with &#8220;abusive tactics&#8221; against the CHP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Erdo\u011fan has led Turkey since 2003, as prime minister and then as president, and \u00d6zel has accused his AK party of pursuing a strategy to &#8220;eliminate its rivals&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 72-year-old leader can only run for president again if he calls early elections before 2028 or changes the constitution. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Justice Minister Akin G\u00fcrlek said earlier this week that the appeal court ruling &#8220;reinforces our citizens&#8217; trust in democracy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The decision overturned a 2025 ruling by a lower court that threw out allegations of vote buying during the CHP primary in which \u00d6zel became opposition leader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ruling also means the party&#8217;s entire executive is replaced, and it is thought its decisions are no longer recognised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Human Rights Watch warned on Saturday that Erdo\u011fan&#8217;s government was undermining Turkish democracy with &#8220;abusive tactics&#8221; against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-601725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}