There has been unrest across Turkey after an appeals court annulled the results of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) 2023 leadership election, deposing the popular winner Özgür Özel. Özel’s removal, based on the the court’s decision that the CHP’s 38th congress was void from the beginning, overturning an earlier court finding rejecting allegations of electoral irregularities, has left the CHP with a 77-year-old party veteran, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, as interim leader.