2024 Turkish local elections
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Local elections in Turkey took place throughout the country's 81 provinces on 31 March 2024. A total of 30 metropolitan and 1,363 district municipal mayors, alongside 1,282 provincial and 21,001 munic
Özgür Özel, September 17 2023
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in January 2024
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Republican People's Party
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The Republican People's Party is a centre-left, social democratic political party in Turkey. It is the oldest political party in Turkey, founded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the first president and found
2024 Turkish local elections
…economic crisis and rapidly rising inflation. Following the defeat, the opposition six-party coalition dissolved, with the main opposition parties Republican People's Party (CHP) and Good Party (İYİ) fielding separate candidates for effectively all mayoral positions. This was the first nationwide election to be contested…
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and his Prime Minister İsmet İnönü, 1936. İnönü would succeed him as president and CHP chairman after his death.
The Six Arrows statue in the garden of the Grand National Assembly during the 4th Republican People's Party Ordinary Convention, 1935
The CHP (then known with the acronym "CHF") sponsored many nation building projects throughout the 1930s, such as People's Platforms.
Bülent Ecevit and Jimmy Carter, 1978