ANKARA, Aug 13 (Reuters) – Jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu said on Wednesday he was joining the newly formed New Party, after a court order removed the leadership of his former Republican People’s Party (CHP) amid an unprecedented legal crackdown on the opposition.
Last month, Turkish opposition leader Ozgur Ozel and 90 other breakaway lawmakers launched a new political party, seeking to regroup to challenge President Tayyip Erdogan after a court ousted Ozel as CHP chairman and reinstated the party’s divisive former leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu.
