CHP General Chairman Özgür Özel and Manisa Şehzadeler Mayor Gülşah Durbay have been accused of an illicit affair. STATEMENTS FROM ÖZEL AND DURBAY IN QUICK SUCCESSIONIn a statement regarding the allegation, Durbay firmly denied the claims that she had a relationship with Özel and that she had an abortion. Özel stated, "Those who find a way to gain a position without being a party member and seize opportunities, if I do not curse your foreheads, I am not a man! What will our Gülşah sacrifice, and there is no Özgür Özel who will be afraid of you. You will burn as much as your crime. If it weren't for the promise I made to Atatürk, I would curse and do something else," he expressed. KILIÇDAROĞLU: I HAVE NEVER PAID ATTENTION TO SUCH EVENTSRegarding the allegations of an illicit affair, CHP's 7th General Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, who participated in a live broadcast on Sözcü TV, stated, "There is nothing more wrong than using gossip and tabloid news in politics. Throughout my life, including the ruling party, I have never paid attention to any of these kinds of events and have never voiced them. I am very sensitive about this issue. As soon as such events are mentioned, a lawsuit should be filed immediately. "IF A MAN LIKE SOYLU IS MENTIONING THIS..."One of the first to mention this was Prosecutor Sayan, and Gökçen Enç was another… Süleyman Soylu brought these up. I am a politician too; we can be criticized, but when it comes to slander or insult, I immediately tell my lawyer friend to 'file a lawsuit.' If a man like Süleyman Soylu is mentioning this… 'If you are doing this and not disclosing what you know, you are dishonorable,' it needs to be said. It needs to be cut off from the start. The mayor is my child, coming from the CHP Youth Branch. Such slanders are not true. If there had been an intervention in time and a lawsuit had been filed, these would not have happened. There is nothing worse than slander," he said.
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