30.05.2025 17:41
Former CHP Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, who broke his silence following the party's 38th Ordinary Congress held on November 4-5, 2023, and the allegations against him, stated: "To those who will burn me, stone me, prevent me from taking a step, and to the cowards: Those who fear you are the cowardly ones."
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Former CHP Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu broke his silence following the 38th Ordinary Congress of his party, which took place on November 4-5, 2023, and the allegations against him.
HE SPAT FIRE WITHOUT NAMING NAMES
Denying the allegations against him in strong terms, Kılıçdaroğlu stated without naming names, "To those who will burn me, stone me, prevent me from taking a step, and to the cowards: Those who fear you are the cowards."
Kılıçdaroğlu stated in a message he shared on social media with the title "Our silence is not passivity, it is responsibility":
"I AM RECEIVING OPEN THREATS TO MY PERSONAL SAFETY"
"On November 20, 2023, just two weeks after our 38th Congress, some allegations regarding the congress began to surface in the public domain. In the video I published that day, I clearly and decisively expressed everything necessary to protect our party. However, since that day, I have been subjected to a systematic lynching campaign through organized troll accounts that operate in the dark while hiding their identities. I am receiving open threats to my personal safety. There are those who threaten to hang me from an electric pole, and those who want me to be shot... Threats, slanders, and dirty campaigns have come together."
"SOME POLITICIANS WHO ONCE CONSIDERED WALKING WITH ME A PRIDE HAVE NOW JOINED THIS CHORUS"
We are facing a broad front that extends from so-called academics funded by fake social media accounts to some journalists who have sullied their professions with slander and manipulation. And unfortunately, some politicians who once stood by me for their political gain, who once considered walking with me a pride, have now joined this chorus. If there is a reality, I will never hesitate to express it without bending or twisting it, with a firm stance.
"THOSE WHO FEAR YOU ARE THE COWARDS"
They all demand that I speak on a subject about which I have no knowledge and no involvement. However, we must walk without deviating from the true agenda of this nation. We must lean on the public, not the personal; on truth, not gossip. I am a politician who speaks with the people, not with polemics. And everyone who knows me knows: If there is a reality, I will never hesitate to express it without bending or twisting it, with a firm stance. To those who will hang me from poles, shoot me, burn me, stone me, prevent me from taking a step, and to the cowards: Those who fear you are the cowards.
"WE ARE CAPABLE OF DROWNING THE ENEMIES OF THIS PARTY IN THE HONOR OF THIS PARTY"
I am clearly addressing everyone who is waiting for a message from me: Let everyone know that we are capable of drowning the enemies of this party in the honor of this party."
WHAT HAPPENED?
Journalist Nevşin Mengü brought up an allegation regarding the investigation conducted about the CHP's 38th Ordinary Congress held on November 4-5, 2023. Mengü stated, "According to the information I obtained, the prosecutor sent a message to Kılıçdaroğlu saying, 'If you come and say in your statement that there is no corruption at the congress, I did not see such a thing, I was not a witness, we will close the file.' However, Mr. Kemal still did not go to give a statement."
Academician Dr. Emrah Gülsunar, who quoted the video containing Mengü's allegations about Kılıçdaroğlu on social media, stated, "This is the place where words end. It is a clear dishonor and disgrace for a person to try to regain the chairmanship lost due to the regime's unlawful judicial operation. This person should be expelled from the party and spat on everywhere."
Kılıçdaroğlu had filed a criminal complaint against Mengü and Gülsunar on the grounds of 'insult' and 'slander.'
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