20.05.2026 23:20
{"text":"Current leader Özgür Özel responded to former CHP Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu's call for "Purification" to the party. Özel said, "My words were directed at the one who sits on marble in the Palace, not at Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. That statement is a challenge to an alliance. And that alliance is: the March 19 coup plotters and the internal party coup plotters. I am speaking to the alliance of those who cannot accept the congress election results and those who cannot accept the March 31, 2024 election results.""}
While the repercussions of former CHP Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu's video shared on social media, calling on the CHP to "purify," continue, current Chairman Özgür Özel gave his first response to his predecessor.
"MY WORDS WERE SAID TO THE ONE WHO IS MARBLE IN THE PALACE, NOT TO KEMAL KILIÇDAROĞLU"
In an interview with Gazete Pencere regarding Kılıçdaroğlu's video, Özel said, "My words were said to the one who is marble in the palace, not to Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. That statement is a challenge to an alliance. And that alliance is: the March 19 coup plotters and internal party coup plotters. I challenge the alliance of the Aktoros Gang and the Butlan Group, the March 19 coup plotters and internal party coup plotters. I'm speaking to the alliance of those who cannot digest the convention election and those who cannot digest the March 31, 2024 election results."
"I WOULD BE SURPRISED IF HE SHOWS SENSITIVITY TO THE THINGS I SAID ABOUT THOSE SEEKING HELP FROM THE PALACE"
I haven't heard anything from Kılıçdaroğlu like 'I will come by court order.' I haven't heard it, but if I did, I wouldn't approve. I would be surprised if Kemal Bey shows sensitivity to the things I said about those seeking help from the palace. I would expect him to define himself in a position where he would not show such sensitivity. I hope Mr. Kılıçdaroğlu says, 'Let them not expect me to make a statement against the current CHP administration.'"
WHAT DID KILIÇDAROĞLU SAY?
Former CHP Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, in a video published on his social media account with the title "To the conscientious, patriotic, and noble citizens of this beautiful country," emphasized clean politics and called on the Republican People's Party to purify.
Kılıçdaroğlu said: "My brothers, especially the shadow of this great tree can never and never be a haven for the forbidden and the polluted. When necessary, it knows how to purify and conduct its internal accounting. But it never turns from its path. Because this march is a march to power. Because this march is a march to revive the hope of the people. There are those who expect me to remain silent or say other things. Listen to me carefully: Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu does not negotiate the interests of the nation and his party for his own ambition. He may become dust a thousand times and bloom a thousand times in the hands of his honest, upright children, but he does not bend. Your slanders and threats mean nothing to me. I speak the truth, I stand by the truth."