Beleagured Turkish opposition attempts to regroup with new party

ANKARA, July 24 (Reuters) - Turkish opposition leader Ozgur Ozel and 91 breakaway lawmakers applied on Friday to launch a new political party, seeking to regroup to challenge President Tayyip Erdogan after their former party faced an unprecedented legal crackdown. They applied to the interior ministry to launch the so-called New Party in protest over a May court ruling that had annulled the Republican People's Party (CHP) 2023 congress and stripped Ozel of his title as CHP chairman.