CHP Group Chairman Özgür Özel, regarding CHP Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu's words regarding the new party discussions, said, "If you lose the nation's hope here, the nation is looking for hope in the new party." Özel said, "Mr. Kılıçdaroğlu, you are making a call, I am making a call. Let's compete with 2 million members. If I get less than 90 percent of the votes, I will quit politics."
Özgür Özel spoke at the CHP Group Meeting in the Turkish Grand National Assembly. Özel said that he met with citizens in Adana and Niğde last weekend and said, "I swear that we will never, ever make anyone who trusts them or us experience sadness, defeat and embarrassment again. I call out to Mr. Erdoğan in particular, to those who are trapped in the halls, to those who do politics at the table, to those who do not go out and cannot go out. There is no fear in our nation. There is no surrender in our nation. There is faith, perseverance, determination."
Özel said that there is no justice in the country and said, "Because there is no prosperity, there is no abundance. Fatih Sultan Mehmet said: 'If you kill the mind, morality also dies. When morality dies, the nation is divided. If you buy the judge, justice dies. If justice dies, this state dies.' A handful of people who fell out of favor with the nation killed justice in Türkiye for their own interests. Together, we made a big change in our party in November 2023. 4 months later, together with our new staff, we determined each of our candidates by conducting surveys, relying on more women, more young people, relying on measurement and evaluation, and making sure that the population is suitable and the race is risky, that is, except in cases where they definitely win or definitely lose. And as we promised, we defeated the Justice and Development Party for the first time in the first election, and made our party the first party for the first time in 47 years. Since that day, we have been the target of all undemocratic attacks. We are not the loser, but the winner CHP. We are the CHP that refuses to lose. "If we lose an election, we will go to the congress the next day and we will not be candidates," he said, seeing for the first time Tayyip Erdoğan's reaction in a quarter of a century, "If I lose, I will not stay in office, won't you stay too?" "We are the CHP that asks and cannot hear Tayyip Bey's voice," he said.
Özel stated that a total of 34 mayors have been operated on so far and 24 mayors are still detained, and said, "Most of these operations were carried out in Istanbul by an instructed structure established within the judiciary, in front of everyone's eyes. Then, the head of that structure, supposedly impartial, comes from the Deputy Minister, then the chief prosecutor. The next day, he is the Minister. The next day, at the meeting of the provincial heads, he says, 'I will continue to operate for the success of our party.' He is working for the success of the party while wearing a prosecutor's robe, just like yesterday. Today, he is the Minister." "The person who said 'I will work for the success of my party' came and said, as we all heard and everyone knows, 'The chief prosecutor and his deputies will change in Ankara, because they are not carrying out the operations we say,'" he said.
Recalling that Çankaya Mayor Hüseyin Can Güner was detained, Özel said, "The target was there, Presidential candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu, the successful mayors of CHP. Now it is Ankara, who is the target in Ankara? 'Let's hurt CHP, let's hurt Özgür Özel. Let's make Hüseyin Can Güler our target.' Our eyes and ears are at the courthouse. On the other hand, there will be new task distributions after new appointments. They ask the judges who will make the arrests without giving them the task, and they name big names from the Republican People's Party. 'If this happens to you, will you look at the evidence, will you arrest him without hesitation?' To put those who would arrest without hesitation in those positions, to conduct such an irregular interview that should not actually exist, and as a condition: 'I wonder if the next operation will be against this, that, or that?' Give the names of everyone called and say, 'If you come across them and are asked to arrest them, will you comply with the request or look for evidence?' "We are in a process where questions are asked," he said.
Stating that 54 days have passed since the absolute nullity decision and that they have visited 21 provinces in these 54 days, Özel said, "The nation does not let those who accept the nullity out onto the streets. Those who accept the nullity do not receive the salute of the nation in the provinces. He carries those who resist the nullity on his shoulders. We are in such a process. With that decision, there was a discussion, 'Sir, we came with precautions. Since we came with precautions, we cannot hold a congress.' The thing that will normally end the discussion is the expert opinion of this matter. All professors of the subject published a joint text. They said, 'The measure does not prevent the congress, on the contrary, it should be taken as soon as possible.' Those who passed the law and the teachers who worked here gave their opinions and wrote articles. They said, 'It should be done immediately.' They said, 'You can't do it.' Who said? 'I have one lawyer, he said.' More than a thousand delegates submitted their signatures. We gave the signatures, a month has passed, they say nothing and lie on it. On the other hand, when it appears on television here and there, they say, 'There are precautions, we cannot hold a congress.' However, if he gets those signatures as required and applies to the District Election Board, he will do so, if he does, he will do it, if he does not, he will not do it. We will all see. "They are avoiding this too," he said.
'WHEN THE NATION'S DAY COMES, HE WILL ASK FOR THIS.'
Özel said that the file was not sent to the Supreme Court, even though it was the 54th day, and said, "The first 10-15 days are stalling scenarios where people take the decision with false ideas and say, 'Write a petition, let me write an answer, let me examine it, let me do it.' For 1 month, the president of the court is about to press a button, but he does not. The director there has the authority to press the button. He wrote a letter and took over the authority so that it would not be approved without his knowledge. In order not to approve it until the judicial recess came, he said, 'There is a negotiation.' 'I couldn't go, there was NATO, I couldn't go, I couldn't do I don't know what.' Now he has received another 3-day report, so he cannot press that button so that the decision will not be sent to the Supreme Court. Attention, the decision maker; He is trying not to send the decision to the Supreme Court. He is trying not to bring it under the control of the Supreme Court. 54 days have passed. 'If I let it go for 5-6 more days, there will be a 40-day judicial holiday in between, maybe these will wear off, I will leave the party there, the purpose will be achieved, and I will be free from this.' I know the intention of the one who does not trust the decision he made, who knows full well that the Supreme Court will overturn it, who tears up his diploma because it would have consequences if the court of appeal takes an injunction, who implements the instructions by taking the responsibility of pressing the button by getting a report from the officer in the place where all the teachers who train him have written 'you can't do it' and where articles are published. But this nation will be held accountable for this when the day comes," he said.
Regarding CHP Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu's remarks about the new party discussions in a television program he attended, Özel said, "'I don't understand why the new party is being talked about.' People understand why this is being talked about. If you lose the nation's hope here, the nation will look for hope in the new party. Throughout my life, I did not speak freely when speaking to the chairmen who served before me. I did not mention their names and say a bad word once. The chairman before me did nothing. I said, 'It's okay if he criticizes me, his rights are entrusted to me.' I'm saying it here now. You are dismissing the provincial presidents elected in 2025 for the election held in 2023. 60 of them asked the provincial president of your period, 'Why do you respect the elected CHP, don't you walk with me?' You are killing the children of this party and expelling them from the party. Finally, you go back and say, 'I can't do it like that, I can't do it like that.' When we left, there were 1 million 250 thousand members, we increased it to 2 million, thank God. I said, 'Don't resign.' Unfortunately, 50 thousand of them resigned. "We have 1 million 950 thousand members," he said.
Special, calling on CHP Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, said, "You served and spoke from this podium. But the first owner of this podium is Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. The last owner is neither me nor you. Since you are a party member, since you do not want to be divided, if there is a division, you talk as if you can divide it because it will benefit the AK Party. I am saying this clearly. Whether 1 million 950 Let's call back those who resigned with our thousand members and let's both of us enter the presidential race with all our members, whether it's the 1 million 200 thousand you left, let the loser let the CHP go, let the loser leave politics. Mr. Kılıçdaroğlu, you are calling, let's run together with 2 million members. If we get less than 90 percent of the votes, I will quit politics.