"Ozgur Ozel elected as new leader of Turkey's main opposition party"

Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has elected Ozgur Ozel as its new leader, replacing incumbent Kemal Kilicdaroglu, ahead of the upcoming local elections in March. Ozel, who has been serving as the CHP's deputy parliamentary group chairman since 2015, received 812 out of 1,366 votes at a party congress in Ankara. The change in leadership comes after the CHP's defeat in the May presidential and general elections. Ozel's victory, supported by Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, is seen as a potential turning point in Turkish politics and could impact the trend of depoliticization in the country. Ozel will now lead the CHP in the local elections, aiming to retain key municipalities won in 2019.