Turkey: Opposition Leader's Mother-In-Law Passes Away

The mother-in-law of a senior opposition Turkish party leader has passed away.



Fatma Ozdag was the mother-in-law of Republican People's Party, or the CHP, Chairman Kemal Kilicdaroglu.



Ozdag passed away Sunday morning at the Derince Training and Research Hospital in Turkey's northwestern province of Kocaeli, the party's press unit announced.



The funeral ceremony will be held in the eastern province of Tunceli Monday, it added.



Ozdag, 84, had been critically ill since last one month and was being treated at the hospital's intensive care unit.



Kilicdaroglu has cancelled all routine party programs for two days.



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