Is this the end of Atatürk’s party? What began in March with the arrest of Istanbul mayor İmamoğlu has turned into the possible evisceration of a Turkish institution that Atatürk once described as “a source of pride” & even, if apocryphally, his child on.ft.com/4nszbm9 @financialtimes.com

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Interview: head of Turkey’s opposition accuses Erdoğan of legal ‘coup’. Özgür Özel says that CHP will use ‘cunning’ ploys and protests to fight off lawsuits that could gut CHP party leadership on.ft.com/45SaSbv

RÖPORTAJ...Türkiye’nin muhalefet lideri Erdoğan’ı ‘hukuki darbe’ ile suçladı. Özgür Özel, CHP’nin yönetimini zayıflatabilecek davalara karşı ‘kurnaz’ hamleler ve protestolarla mücadele edeceklerini söyledi.” on.ft.com/45SaSbv via @financialtimes

Turkish stocks fall after court ousts Istanbul opposition leadership in a potentially landmark ruling that could hobble challengers to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. on.ft.com/3JJpgKv via @financialtimes.com

The culture war roiling Turkey’s elite Boğaziçi university Its elegant grounds are home to battles that encapsulate broader Turkish travails - & mirror disputes in US & Hungary, where Trump & Orbán have also sought to bring top universities to heel on.ft.com/3JJp4uL

“One way or another, the Europeans are going to have to pick up more of the burden. The question is whether this will be a managed process or chaotic one” In the age of Trump, a rising China and a revanchist Russia, our FT deep dive into whether Europe can defend itself on.ft.com/4i1wKVQ