02.12.2025 08:06
The leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), Devlet Bahçeli, reacted fiercely to claims that terrorist leader Abdullah Öcalan said, "If the process is not successful, a coup will be carried out against Bahçeli." Bahçeli stated, "Coup allegations are nonsense; slander and accusations cannot divert us from our path. We stand at the threshold of a historic opportunity. No one has the right to waste this high level."
AK Party Deputy Chairman and Hatay MP Hüseyin Yayman, MHP Deputy Chairman Feti Yıldız, and DEM Party Group Deputy Chair Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit formed a three-person delegation that visited İmralı last week to meet with terrorist leader Abdullah Öcalan.
KOÇYİĞİT: THE MECHANISM OF A COUP MAY COME INTO PLAY
DEM Party Group Deputy Chair Koçyiğit detailed their meeting with Öcalan and stated: "We can express that Mr. Öcalan interprets the process that started with the speech of the President in Ahlat and Malazgirt and the gesture of Mr. Bahçeli on October 1 as a kind of 'state intelligence.' In this sense, he reads this newly developing process as one developed by state intelligence and expresses his belief that politics should also be a part of this process. At least as a result, I can say that I have made such an inference on my own behalf. He emphasized that this process needs to be successful and pointed out that there are structures that do not want it to succeed, at least highlighting the notion of a coup mechanism. In other words, he drew attention to the danger that if this process does not succeed, ultimately a coup mechanism may come into play."
AK PARTY MEMBER TAYYAR ALSO BROUGHT UP THE CLAIM
Former AK Party MP Şamil Tayyar made striking statements regarding Koçyiğit's words "The coup mechanism may come into play" during a live broadcast he attended. Speaking on Tv100, Tayyar said, "In the last meeting, if the process does not succeed, you know how DEM Party's Gülistan Koçyiğit describes it, 'the coup mechanism works'... He (Öcalan) elaborates on the subject a bit more there, using important phrases about Devlet Bey. He places great importance on his initiative. (Öcalan) If the process does not succeed, he says that a coup will be carried out against Devlet Bey within the MHP. The part about Bahçeli has never been discussed until now. I am stating this for the first time. He says that a coup will be carried out against Devlet Bey," he stated.
BAHÇELİ RESPONDS HARSHLY TO THE COUP CLAIM
MHP Chairman Devlet Bahçeli responded to the claims circulating in the public and the alleged words of terrorist leader Abdullah Öcalan, which were said to have been mentioned during the commission visit: "If the process does not succeed, a coup will be carried out against Bahçeli."
"IT IS NONSENSE"
Bahçeli stated, "Coup claims are nonsense, slander and accusations cannot divert us from our path. A historic opportunity threshold is before us. No one has the right to waste this high level," he expressed.