13.04.2026 21:03
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, regarding the statements of CHP Chairman Özgür Özel, said, 'If the CHP Chairman truly wants to benefit the nation and women, he should stop dealing with ministry names. Instead, he should focus on the corruption, bribery, extortion, and harassment scandals that plague his party like a cancer cell.'
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reacted to the statements made by CHP Chairman Özgür Özel.
“LET THE CHP CHAIRMAN OCCUPY HIMSELF WITH CORRUPTION, BRIBERY, EXTORTION, HARASSMENT SCANDALS”
In a statement from his social media account, President Erdoğan said, "If the CHP Chairman truly wants to benefit the nation and women, he should stop dealing with ministry names. Instead, let him occupy himself with the corruption, bribery, extortion, and harassment scandals that plague his party like a cancer cell. If he insists on establishing a structure, of course, provided he can find sufficient personnel, he should urgently establish a 'presidency for purification from corruption' within his party. Thus, he would both comply with his predecessor Kılıçdaroğlu's purification advice and serve the citizens. But unfortunately, this country's main opposition party cannot break free from, cannot escape the control of crime organizations established for profit. To tell the truth, we are saddened, on behalf of our country's politics, by the miserable state to which the CHP, which boasts 'We are the party founded by Gazi Mustafa Kemal,' has been reduced under the current administration. We believe that Turkish democracy will, God willing, attain a main opposition with the maturity, quality, and vision it deserves in the upcoming period."
President Erdoğan's post is as follows;