The former chairman of Türkiye’s essential opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), Deniz Baykal, died on the age of 84, the present celebration chief introduced on Saturday.
“I have learned with great sadness the death of Deniz Baykal, our chairman, a lover of Türkiye and the Republican People’s Party, our lawmaker from Antalya province,” Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu mentioned on Twitter.
“He left us a legacy full of stories of struggles. My condolences to our nation,” Kılıçdaroğlu added.
Baykal suffered from circulatory issues in a serious artery, and had obtained remedy in hospitals within the Turkish capital Ankara and Germany’s Munich since 2017 earlier than he returned to parliament in 2019.
When the senior lawmaker first received a parliamentary seat in 1973, he was the youngest Turkish deputy.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
