03.05.2025 14:12
MHP Leader Devlet Bahçeli issued a message on the occasion of May 3rd Nationalists' Day. Bahçeli stated, "It is undoubtedly true that Turkey needs nationalism and a national orientation in every field."
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MHP General Chairman Devlet Bahçeli issued a message on the occasion of May 3rd Nationalists' Day. Bahçeli stated, "Nationalism is not only a precious collection of belonging to the nation and love, but also a project of living together and brotherhood that prioritizes contemporary, modern, and human values, considers them important, and aims to unite them with the horizon of infinity. It is undoubtedly necessary for Turkey to embrace nationalism and national orientation in every field. Separation, distribution, division, exclusion, and alienation should be regarded as anomalies that do not exist in the vocabulary of nationalism and should be understood as abnormalities contrary to the language of nationalism."
The full statement of Devlet Bahçeli is as follows:
"Eighty-one years ago, a handful of brave individuals who raised nationalism in their hearts as a banner; while standing out as a symbol of faith and will, they have flourished as a beacon of thought and action that pierces through darkness.
They have also been representatives of an immense spirit of struggle that resists suffering, oppression, hardship, and torment.
"THEY HAVE REJECTED THE CYCLE OF OPPRESSION AND COERCION"
Twenty-three conscious Turkish nationalists, including our late leader Alparslan Türkeş Bey, have opposed and resisted the scenarios of anti-national currents and minds with the possibilities and inspirations of history, culture, and national values.
As a natural and correct result of this moral stance, they have rejected the cycle of oppression, coercion, and domination.
"THEY HAVE PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE MEETING OF NATIONALISM WITH THE PEOPLE"
With their civil, democratic, and freedom-based calls, they have played an important role in the meeting of nationalism with the people.
The tortures inflicted on Turkish nationalists in half-square-meter coffins could not diminish their loyalty to the Turkish homeland and their love for the Turkish nation; on the contrary, it has spurred them on, encouraged, and strengthened them even more.
In the polarized society and petrified administrative structure of the 1940s, the noble names of nationalism representing reason, rights, wisdom, and ideals have undoubtedly become a source of goals, excitement, and respect for subsequent generations.
"NATIONALISM IS A PROJECT OF LIVING TOGETHER AND BROTHERHOOD"
It is observed that some political and ideological circles, whose purposes and intentions are quite pathological and problematic, continue to categorize nationalism with racism; to present it in a uniform, restrictive, and suffocating structure.
To equate fascism with nationalism, to see race and nation as one and the same, and to seek opportunities to defame and vilify Turkish nationalism in this murky area is, at the very least, ignorance and alienation from the spiritual roots of the nation.
Those who cannot confess the unifying, integrative, and complementary nature of nationalism, who cannot accept its dynamic and open-to-development aspect, are the cosmopolitan-minded apostles of globalization who are excessively disturbed by the judgments of national existence, national identity, and national values.
Nationalism is the guide of the future, the vision of our age that will not become obsolete, the sole guarantee of the nation, the engine of economic development, and the promoter, guarantor, and supply axis of democracy and freedoms.
Nationalism is not only a precious collection of belonging to the nation and love, but also a project of living together and brotherhood that prioritizes contemporary, modern, and human values, considers them important, and aims to unite them with the horizon of infinity.
"IT IS UNDOUBTED THAT TURKEY NEEDS NATIONALISM IN EVERY FIELD"
It is undoubtedly necessary for Turkey to embrace nationalism and national orientation in every field.
Separation, distribution, division, exclusion, and alienation should be regarded as anomalies that do not exist in the vocabulary of nationalism and should be understood as abnormalities contrary to the language of nationalism.
Turkish nationalism is a functional expression of the thought of living honorably and independently, asserting national identity, and achieving complete sovereignty over our independence and future without intermediaries or connections.
Those who seek nationalism in slogans and confine it to simple templates and clichés should not be deceived or give credence to the cheap and absurd discourses of those who have permission, authorization, exploitative, and denialist bombastic memorization.
The moral sense of responsibility that keeps ideas alive and maintains the honor of thought is also a virtue of dignity and loyalty.
Those exempt from this virtue's understanding and expression of May 3rd are a denial of reason, rationality, and logic, meaning it is a futile desire.
"MAY ALLAH BE PLEASED WITH THEM ALL"
With these feelings and thoughts, on May 3rd Nationalists' Day, which is a day of remembrance, I commemorate with mercy, gratitude, and respect the late heroes of the May 3, 1944 events, especially our late leader Alparslan Türkeş Bey, and our martyrs of cause and ideal.
I say may Allah be pleased with them all."
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