Kemal Kilicdaroglu

The idea of a non-democratic Turkey will be clinched if yes votes emerge in the April 16 referendum on constitutional amendments, main opposition CHP leader said on April 12, commenting on the relationship with EU.

"We want to be a part of the civilized world," CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said in an interview with Doğan TV Ankara representative Hakan Çelik on CNN Türk.

Turkey is trying to bring the Syrian constitution to the country with the new amendments that will be voted in the April 16 referendum, main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said on April 12.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said he believes the government should submit a draft on reinstating the death penalty in the event that the constitutional amendments are approved in the upcoming referendum on April 16. 

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has challenged President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to prove his claims that he met with the plotters of the July 15, 2016, failed coup attempt, widely believed to have been masterminded by the followers of the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has quoted pollsters as saying that "no" votes in Istanbul, Turkey's largest city, are in the lead ahead of the April 16 referendum on whether to shift to an executive presidential system. 

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) head Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has long complained that public broadcaster TRT is not giving sufficient coverage to his "No" rallies, ahead of the April 16 referendum on shifting Turkey to an executive presidential system as pushed by President Tayyip Erdoğan.  

One of the first leaders I spoke to after the July 15, 2016, coup attempt was main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. Personally, I believe Kılıçdaroğlu and the CHP as a political party were against the coup without any conditions and with a very clear firm stance. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has accused main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu of being in contact with the coup plotters on the night of the attempted putsch in July 2016. 

The government has confessed that Turkey's century-long republican regime will be changed if a shift to an executive presidential system is approved in a referendum on April 16, main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said, citing a top presidential advisor who said the referendum contains "revolutionary characteristics."

One of the key points in the row between President Tayyip Erdoğan and opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu ahead of the April 16 referendum campaign about whether to shift Turkey from a parliamentary to an executive presidential system has been the dark points from the foiled July 15, 2016, coup attempt in the country.