India, July 25 -- The deposed leader of Turkiye's main Opposition party on Friday formed a new political party to challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, months after he was removed from his post by a court order that his supporters slammed as a political move to weaken the Opposition.

Ozgur Ozel and 90 other legislators formally resigned from the Republican People's Party, or CHP, and then registered the new political party - named the "New Party" -with the Interior Ministry.

"May it be auspicious for our homeland, our nation, and our party," Ozel said in a video posted on X, showing him signing a document formalising his resignation from the CHP, Turkiye's oldest political party.

In May, a court of appeal annulled a 2023 party cong...