‘This is an attempt to prevent government turnover through the ballot box’

An Ankara court on Monday adjourned a key hearing into alleged vote buying that could upend the leadership of Turkey’s main opposition CHP party, which has been battling a growing array of legal challenges. Speaking on FRANCE 24’s, Berk Esen, Associate Professor of Political Sciences at Sabancı University, says that Turkey’s President Erdogan is ‘very worried’ that the CHP can score electoral victories in the upcoming polls.