30.11.2025 15:05
On the third day of the CHP's 39th Ordinary Congress, elections for the Party Assembly and the High Disciplinary Board will be held. The candidate list for the Party Assembly and the High Disciplinary Board has been announced. It has been learned that CHP Chairman Özgür Özel has retained 49 names on the key list he will present for the delegates' approval and added 31 new names to his list.
The CHP's 39th Ordinary Congress, with the slogan "Now is the Time for Power," will hold elections for the Party Assembly (PM), High Disciplinary Board (YDK), and Science Culture Art Platform (BKSP) on its third and final day. After the completion of candidacy applications, candidate lists were announced and sent to the printing house. A total of 145 applied for the PM, and 31 for the YDK.
31 NEW NAMES ADDED TO THE MANAGEMENT LEVEL
CHP Chairman Özgür Özel will designate 15 names for the 10-member BKSP as required by the statute and present this to the approval of the delegates. For the Party Assembly, he will create a key list of 70 people. According to the information received, while 49 names, including the current 23-member MYK, were retained in the key list, 31 new names were added to the party's management level.
ECONOMIC TEAMS STRENGTHENED
Economists such as Selin Sayek Böke and Yalçın Karatepe, who are part of Özgür Özel's current MYK, have been strengthened with new economic teams. Accordingly, tax expert Ozan Bingöl, economist Güldem Atabay, former TÜRMOB President Emre Kartaloğlu, former Future Party member Kerim Rota, member of the Presidential Candidate Office Executive Board Serkan Özcan, Koç Holding's Corporate Communications Director, and economist Oya Ünlü Kızıl, who previously worked at the World Bank, will be included in Özel's key list.
CIHANER AND BOYUNSUZ ON THE LIST
On Özel's key list, constitutional law expert Prof. Dr. Şule Özsoy Boyunsuz, Istanbul MP Zeynel Emre, and former Istanbul MP İlhan Cihaner, who was detained in his office by FETÖ members while serving as the Chief Public Prosecutor of Erzincan, have been assigned to the party's legal team. Özel's key list also includes Murat Arslan, former president of the Turkish Veterinary Medical Association, and dentist Nihat Dağ.
Former Lisbon and Nicosia Ambassador Ömer Kaya Türkmen and political scientist Prof. Dr. Barış Övgün, former CHP Secretaries Bihlun Tamaylıgil and Cansel Çiftçi, names who recently joined the party such as İzmir MP Salih Uzun and Istanbul MP Evrim Rızvanoğlu, as well as artist Arif Sağ's son, artist Tolga Sağ, will also be included in Özel's key list.