Tens of thousands of people protested in Ankara ahead of a key court hearing Monday targeting Turkey's main CHP opposition party that could see its leadership upended.

Critics say the vote-buying case is a politically motivated attempt to undermine Turkey's oldest political party, which won a huge victory over President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP in 2024 local elections and has been rising in the polls.

The CHP denies the charges and has accused the government of trying to defang it as an opposition force.

Its popularity has grown since it led Turkey's biggest street protests in a decade, triggered in March by the jailing of its presidential candidate, Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.

At least 50,000 people took part in a rally in the capital Ankara on Sunday, where CHP leader Ozgur Ozel

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