The chutzpah of opposition politician Canan Kaftancioglu
Left-wing CHP leader Canan Kaftancioglu inflicted a humiliating defeat on Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul in 2019. Now the Turkish president wants revenge in court. Yet Kaftancioglu seems unlikely to go down without a fight, having recently sued both Erdogan and his interior minister for defamation, after they branded her a terrorist . By Daniel Bellut
Canan Kaftancioglu is a rising political star in Turkey. The popularity ratings of this 48-year-old doctor-turned-politician from the Black Sea region are among the highest in the country.
She had always stood out in the social democratic Republican People s Party (CHP) with her left-wing views, and at the beginning of 2018 she was elected Istanbul s provincial president. But Kaftancioglu s real breakthrough came a good year later after she masterminded one of the most successful election campaigns in Turkish history.
The chutzpah of opposition politician Canan Kaftancioglu
Left-wing CHP leader Canan Kaftancioglu inflicted a humiliating defeat on Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul in 2019. Now the Turkish president wants revenge in court. Yet Kaftancioglu seems unlikely to go down without a fight, having recently sued both Erdogan and his interior minister for defamation, after they branded her a terrorist . By Daniel Bellut
Canan Kaftancioglu is a rising political star in Turkey. The popularity ratings of this 48-year-old doctor-turned-politician from the Black Sea region are among the highest in the country.
She had always stood out in the social democratic Republican People s Party (CHP) with her left-wing views, and at the beginning of 2018 she was elected Istanbul s provincial president. But Kaftancioglu s real breakthrough came a good year later after she masterminded one of the most successful election campaigns in Turkish history.
Turkey s Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatens rivals with jail
Left-wing CHP leader Canan Kaftancioglu inflicted a humiliating defeat on Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul in 2019. Now the Turkish president wants revenge in court.
Canan Kaftancioglu has begun using the government s own tactics against it
Canan Kaftancioglu is a rising political star in Turkey. The popularity ratings of this 48-year-old doctor-turned-politician from the Black Sea region are among the highest in the country.
But Kaftancioglu real breakthrough came a good year later after she masterminded one of the most successful election campaigns in Turkish history. This was the campaign of Ekrem Imamoglu, a relatively unknown local, in Istanbul s mayoral elections of March 2019. Few people expected this newcomer to win against the ruling AKP s candidate, former Prime Minister Binali Yildirim.