22.07.2026 20:50
Özgür Özel, who will leave CHP, announced when the new party will be established. Özel said the party's political founding will take place in August-September together with the nation, and that they will then join the new party.
CHP Group Chairman Özgür Özel said, "We will hold the political founding of the party together with our nation in August-September. We will join our new party with that founding."
"FOUNDING IN AUGUST-SEPTEMBER"
Özel answered journalists' questions after a meeting held with some CHP deputies at a hotel in Çankaya.
When a journalist asked, "On the other hand, you are not leaving CHP. Some party council members will remain in CHP. In a possible decision, would there be a return from the new party to CHP?", Özel said, "We are conducting the party's technical board with our deputies. We will hold the political founding of the party together with our nation in August-September. We will join our new party with that founding."
"THE SORROW OF A WELL-TIMED FAREWELL"
Meanwhile, Özgür Özel, who decided to part ways after the management deadlock following the appeal decision in CHP, addressed the CHP group podium for the last time yesterday in the Turkish Grand National Assembly. Describing the process as "a well-timed farewell," Özel said:
"Today, I came carrying the sorrow of a well-timed farewell. Today, with the dialogues we established on the streets after the great injustices from the atmosphere of this hall... We see that something is changing and something is being rebuilt in this country in the neighborhoods of all our provincial heads, district heads, in the evening conversations of our families."