17.08.2025 17:49
Aydın Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Özlem Çerçioğlu, who resigned from the CHP and joined the AK Party, stated, "Whenever our esteemed President visited Aydın, I always welcomed him because he is the President of our country. We have always had a good friendship with him. When I joined the party, the ministers and party officials truly welcomed me very warmly."
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Aydın Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Özlem Çerçioğlu made her first statements after resigning from the CHP and joining the AK Party.
"I WAS NOT A DISTANT NAME TO OUR PRESIDENT"
Speaking to Sinan Burhan on the Doğru Yorum program on TV100 channel, Çerçioğlu said, "I was not a distant mayor to our esteemed President. During my presidency, whenever our esteemed President came to Aydın, I always welcomed him because he is the President of our country."
"THEY TREATED ME WARMLY AS IF THEY HAD SEEN THEIR SISTERS"
We have always had a good friendship with him. When I came to the party, the ministers and party officials really welcomed me very warmly. This made me very happy, of course. God bless them, everyone I saw in the hall where the badge was pinned treated me warmly as if they had seen a sister or an older sister," she stated.
"LEAVING CHP IS NOT EASY, BUT..."
Stating that leaving the CHP is not easy, Aydın Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Çerçioğlu said, "It is not easy to leave a party I have been in for almost a quarter of a century, but as I mentioned in my statements, there was no longer a situation to do politics here. I am already a mayor who has received the favor of all Aydın residents by getting votes in the general elections in Aydın."
"I HAVE NO DOUBT WHATSOEVER ABOUT AYDIN PROVINCE"
I have always been elected with votes above 50 points in local elections. After I was elected, I never engaged in partisanship in Aydın. All Aydın residents know this. After being elected, I took off the party shirt and did everything we could to serve all Aydın residents without any discrimination. This was the case yesterday, and it will continue this way today. Therefore, I have no doubt whatsoever about Aydın province at this moment. Just as I was Özlem's Mayor of Aydın yesterday, I am still Özlem's Mayor of Aydın today," she said.
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