"Under the long rule of Baykal, the party carried out elitist politics and failed to fulfill its mission to collect all left wing politicians under its roof," said Cafer Yuksel, a prominent left-wing politician who worked both for the CHP and later for the Social Democratic People's Party
"U razdoblju duge Baykalove vladavine, stranka je provodila elitističku politiku i nije ispunila svoju misiju okupljanja svih ljevičarskih političara pod svojim krovom", kazao je Cafer Yuksel, istaknuti ljevičarski političar koji je radio i za CHP, a kasnije i za Socijaldemokratsku narodnu stranku.