in march 2015, a document allegedly regarding a closure case against the republican people's party was leaked online, causing many opposition politicians to accuse the akp of attempting to eliminate competition through anti-democratic practices. the party's leader kemal kılıçdaroğlu confirmed the claims, stating that he had known about the preparations for a closure case for some time. according to kılıçdaroğlu, the case would involve the printing of a controversial book about turkey's president mustafa kemal atatürk by the akp, which will be found illegal by the courts and lead to the closure of the chp since the party itself was founded by atatürk.