Turkey: CHP leader removed by court order

The Court of Appeal should never have handed down this ruling, criticises Karar:

“The ruling on the ‘absolute nullity’ of the CHP constitutes a misapplication of the law. According to Article 21 of the Political Parties Act, the YSK [Supreme Electoral Council] is the only competent judicial authority authorised to rule on the validity of party conferences and party congresses. The Court of Appeal, however, ruled on the basis of the Civil Code. … Even Bülent Arınç, one of the leading founders of the AKP, wrote that he considered this decision ‘wrong in terms of jurisdiction, remit and procedural law’.”