14.07.2026 17:01
Özgür Özel, who was making statements in the pati group, intervened when one of the party members shouted "Traitor Kemal" and snapped, saying "I'm telling you! You always start this, don't do it. I told you on the road too."
While the debates that erupted after the absolute nullity decision in the CHP continue, Özgür Özel, speaking in the party group, prevented a slogan intended to be chanted against Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.
"YOU ALWAYS START IT, DON'T DO IT"
Warning the party member who started the slogan by pausing his speech, Özgür Özel said, "I'm telling you! You always start it, don't do it. I also said it on the road." After Özel's warning, the slogan "Traitor Kemal" was not chanted.
ULTIMATUM TO "QUIT POLITICS"
Meanwhile, in his speech in the party group, Özel addressed Kılıçdaroğlu, saying, "Since you are a party member, since you don't want division, since you talk as if it could be divided, saying 'Division will benefit the AK Party'; I say clearly from here, openly! Whether with our 1 million 950 thousand members, let's call back those who resigned with 2 million members, or with our 1 million 200 thousand members you last left; let the two of us enter the race for the chairmanship with all members, and let the loser leave the CHP! Let them leave the CHP! Let the loser quit politics. 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% of the vote, I will quit politics," he said.
Highlights from Özel's statements;
"After a week-long break, we are back in our nation's Parliament. Last week we held our meeting in our Eskişehir. Together with those listening to our meeting, we took to the streets with our provincial chairman, our mayor, the legendary mayor Yılmaz Büyükerşen, and our deputies. The hall was enthusiastic, but the streets of Eskişehir flowed like a flood. In this difficult period, I would like to send a greeting to beautiful Eskişehir, which embraced us.
"GOOD NEWS, WE ARE IN THE HEART OF THE NATION"
I am speaking to those confined to halls, unable to go outside, especially Mr. Erdoğan. There is no fear, no submission in our nation. There is faith, determination, and resolve. No power has stood, nor can it now stand, against the surging flood of the people. We may not have positions; sometimes we are on a bench, sometimes on a chair. But good news to all of us: we are in the heart of the nation. We have traveled through 21 provinces step by step; we will arrive at the 22nd, Kırıkkale, on Friday. As we seek and build the new, there are those who walk so that the injustices he suffered may be heard.
REACTION TO THE EU'S ARROGANT 'PEACE OPERATION' DECISION
Our heroic army, the TSK, is our honor. We strongly condemn, reject, and denounce the decision in the EU that tries to tarnish our army with vile accusations regarding the Peace Operation.
In a place where massacres amounting to genocide were suffered for years, where peace could not be achieved despite all efforts, with Ecevit and Erbakan sending our army to Cyprus, with successful operations, going to the island for peace, not war, fulfilling their duties in the operation they took part in, never facing even the slightest accusation of war crimes to this day, our still-standing Cyprus veterans—against this attempt to slander them, as the CHP group, we embrace all our veterans and the families of our martyrs with gratitude and kiss their hands.
REACTION TO MINISTER TEKIN ON 'MESEM'
We received heartbreaking news this week from Osmaniye. Our 16-year-old child Yiğit Mehmet Kesme, who was made to repair a tractor under the MESEM program, was crushed in the tractor's hydraulic system and tragically lost his life. However, in Turkey, just this year, 34 children have died in work-related accidents while working. 21 of them were working under the MESEM program. While the insolent, unqualified, and incompetent person appointed to head the Ministry of National Education is busy changing the name of the War of Independence, our children are losing their lives at his post. In Germany, not a single life has been lost in 40 years, while in Turkey, under the MESEM project, we have lost 21 of our children. If we don't demand an account from that insolent person, who will we ask?
"WE ARE THE CHP THAT DOES NOT LOSE"
Unfortunately, there is no justice in this country. Because of this, there is no prosperity or abundance either. They killed justice in Turkey for a handful of people who have fallen out of the nation's sight and heart. Together, we carried out a transformation in our party. We trusted more women and youth, and determined every candidate through surveys. In the first election held, we defeated the AKP for the first time. We made our party the first party after 47 years. Since that day, we have been the target of all anti-democratic attacks. We are the CHP that wins, not loses. We are the CHP that says if we lose an election, we will go to the congress the next day and not run as candidates, and that has seen Erdoğan's bluff of a quarter-century for the first time.
"THEY STARTED THE OPERATION IN ANKARA"
In Ankara, the chief prosecutor and deputies will change. Because they are not carrying out the operations we mentioned." How a municipality should be inspected is clear. It can be done regularly or at random times, inspected by auditors, written up if a flaw is found, and permission is requested from the ministry if there is suspicion of a crime. If there is an allegation, that complaint is investigated and proceeds toward inspection and judiciary with the same procedures. There is no other method. When there is a universal judgment method like going at the crack of dawn, raiding one's home and municipality, then going from evidence to crime, from crime to criminal, but first deciding on the criminal, saying to all companies and employees, 'I seized your property, found your weak spot, locked you up, now go ahead and blame the president, let me take him and release you.' This is the system Ankara said it wouldn't do. An operation is not carried out by targeting someone. Openly, in a process where those who carried out these operations in Istanbul come and are appointed as chief prosecutors here, they have now started in Ankara. They detained our Hüseyin Can.
WILL A NEW PARTY BE FOUNDED?
No one is eager to found a new party, but a retiree whose hope is exhausted by the interruption of our power march on the street asks about a new party. He pinches my arm asking about a new party. I say it openly. With our 2 million members. Let the two of us enter the race for the chairmanship with all members, and let the loser leave the CHP. Let the loser quit politics. Mr. Kılıçdaroğlu, you are making a call, I am making a call. Let's compete; if I get less than 90% of the vote, I will quit politics. I am making my historic call before this noble nation and this noble trust. If I get less than 90% of the vote, I will quit politics. Politics is done not by saying 'I don't know, I don't hear', but with assertiveness."