By Daren Butler
ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkey’s main opposition party has seen hundreds of its members arrested in a nearly year-long legal onslaught that will reach a critical point on Monday when a court decides whether to annul the party’s last congress and unseat its leader.
The Ankara court’s decision on whether to invalidate the 2023 congress of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) over alleged procedural irregularities could reshape the party, rattle financial markets and even influence the timing of a general election set for 2028.
WHAT IS THE CRACKDOWN ABOUT?
The court case is part of an extensive, year-long crackdown on the party over corruption allegations, which the CHP says is politically motivated and aimed at destabilising the party of modern Turkey’s secularist founder Must