A massive rally was held in Turkey’s capital of Ankara on Sunday to protest an upcoming court hearing that could strip opposition leader Ozgur Ozel of his post.
The demonstrators demanded the resignation of authoritarian Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been in power for two decades.
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Ozel is the leader of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), Turkey’s largest opposition party. CHP is actually the oldest party in modern Turkey, having been founded in 1923 by the first leader of the Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. CHP describes its governing philosophy as “Kemalist,” a term that has been frequently redefined over the decades, but presently refers to a fusion of Western-style secularism and Turkish nationalism.
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