Turkey’s main opposition to hold emergency convention amid pressure from Erdoğan govt

Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) will hold an extraordinary party congress on April 6, as announced by chairman Ozgur Ozel to reporters, amid a wider legal crackdown on the party. This decision follows an investigation initiated by an Ankara prosecutor into alleged irregularities during the party’s congress in 2023. France24 Correspondent in Turkey, Jasper Mortimer, has the latest.