CHP Expulsions: Aylin Nazlıaka Responds to Party's 'Trojan Horse' Accusation

The Republican People's Party (CHP) is undergoing a significant internal purge, with 49 members, including key elected officials and former parliamentarians, facing expulsion. This move follows a court's declaration of absolute nullity concerning recent party proceedings, which led to the appointment of a new leadership. The disciplinary action targets individuals who were elected to the Party Council (PM) and Central Executive Board (MYK) during the last congress.

Former CHP Ankara Deputy Aylin Nazlıaka, one of those facing expulsion, vehemently rejected the party's characterization of her and others as 'Trojan horses.' In a social media statement, she declared, "They can expel us from the CHP led by those who have internalized the absolute nullity decision; but they can never expel us from the CHP, the work of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk." Nazlıaka argued that the true "Trojan horses" are those who seized leadership through a "legally flawed and unprecedented judicial intervention" without being elected.

Nazlıaka explained that her group had not resigned earlier due to the risk of the absolute nullity case resulting in a cancellation and leaving the party without leadership. She expressed sorrow at seeing the current CHP "detached from its roots." Nazlıaka and her supporters pledged to continue their fight for a secular, democratic, egalitarian, and fully independent Turkey, guided by the "spirit of Kuvayı Milliye and 1923" and Atatürk's principles. She concluded by stating their commitment, under Özgür Özel's leadership, to strive for power with "great faith, determination, and resolve."