The mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem İmamoğlu from the left-wing main opposition party CHP, supported the protests.[43] Canan Kaftancıoğlu, the chairwoman of the CHP branch in İstanbul also spoke in solidarity with the protest and was named by Erdoğan "a terrorist of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front." This led to a criminal complaint against the president by Kaftancıoğlu.[44]