18th Republican People's Party Extraordinary Convention 18th Republican People's Party Extraordinary Convention The 18th Republican People's Party Extraordinary Convention () took place on 5 and 6 September 2014 in order to elect a leader of the Republican People's Party ("Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi - CHP"), a Turkish centre-left political party. Initially, an ordinary convention was due to be held in 2014, two years after the previous one in 2012. However, the party's incumbent leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu accepted calls for an extraordinary convention to be held following the loss of the CHP's presidential candidate Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu in the presidential election held in August. The ordinary convention will thus
Cumhuriyet 2016, almost half of the paper's reporters, columnists and executives had been jailed by the Erdoğan government. Following the death of Yunus Nadi on 28 March 1945 in Geneva, Switzerland, "Cumhuriyet" was owned by his eldest son until his death on 20 August 1991. Nadir Nadi's wife Berin then published the newspaper. "Cumhuriyet" has been owned by the Cumhuriyet Foundation since the death of Berin Nadi on 5 November 2001. One of its publishers was the renowned political columnist İlhan Selçuk, who was also chairman of the board of trustees and lead writer (from 1992) until he died in 2010.