The CHP İstanbul head was sentenced to prison on five separate charges. The top appeals court has upheld three of them and imposed a political ban on Kaftancıoğlu.
Key Turkish opposition figure banned from politics after anti-Erdoğan tweet
Fears of pre-election crackdown in Turkey as appeals court confirms charges against Canan Kaftancıoğlu of CHP A leading
EP Turkey Rapporteur Sánchez Amor, the European Socialists Party (PES) and Socialists, Democrats & Greens Group (SOC) in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) have made statements condemning the Kaftancıoğlu decision.
CHP plans Istanbul rally after Kaftancıoğlu given prison sentence
The main opposition Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) has decided to hold a major rally in Istanbul on May 21 after Turkey’s
Canan Kaftancıoğlu, architect of the opposition’s victory in the Istanbul mayoral elections, has been given a 5 year jail sentence and banned from politics.
Her “crimes”?
Insulting the President, defaming the state and insulting a civil servant.
The politics of revenge. pic.twitter.com/Ez5zxeNK6Y
— Can Okar (@canokar) May 12, 2022