"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
"Za vreme duge Bajkalove vladavine stranka je vodila elitističku politiku i nije ispunila svoju misiju da okupi sve levičarske političare pod svojim krovom", rekao je Džafer Juksel, istaknuti levičarski političar koji je radio za CHP, a kasnije i za Socijaldemokratsku narodnu partiju.