09.02.2025 12:10
AK Party spokesperson Ömer Çelik strongly reacted on social media with three posts to Özgür Özel's statements suggesting that President Erdoğan remained silent regarding the U.S. plan to exile Gazans. Stating that Özel is in the amateur league of domestic politics, Çelik mentioned Erdoğan's act of hanging the poem for which he was politically banned in 1997 in his office and urged him to respond to Kılıçdaroğlu's claims.
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AK Party Deputy Chairman and AK Party Spokesperson Ömer Çelik responded strongly to the statements of CHP Chairman Özgür Özel, who said that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan remained silent about the U.S. administration's plan to exile Gazans, with three posts he made on his official social media account.
"ÖZEL IS IN THE AMATEUR LEAGUE OF DOMESTIC POLITICS" In his first post, Ömer Çelik stated, "CHP Chairman Mr. Özgür Özel attacks Mr. President, our AK Party, and our People's Alliance as he loses the ability to manage his own party. Mr. Özgür Özel cannot cover the growing 'political current deficit' in terms of managing the CHP by making politically unfounded attacks on Mr. President, our AK Party, and our People's Alliance. Mr. Özgür Özel should know this: The league in which our President is fighting politically is the super league of world politics. The league in which Özgür Özel is trying to prove his own chairmanship is the amateur league of domestic politics."
"ÖZEL SHOULD HANG THE LINES OF THIS POEM IN HIS OFFICE" Çelik also reacted to Özgür Özel's response to Erdoğan's words, "The slogan of those who rob banks has turned into the slogan of those who rob municipalities," where he said, "This is a poem by Bertolt Brecht, the ignorant of God. He knows neither Brecht nor the poem nor art nor culture." In his second post, Çelik stated, "Mr. Özgür Özel has expressed that if Mr. President reads Bertolt Brecht's poem, he will take back the ugly words he said to our President. Given that Mr. Özgür Özel has recently mentioned poetry a lot, we see it beneficial to make a suggestion to him: It would be very meaningful for Özgür Özel to read the poem that includes the line 'minareler süngü, kubbeler miğfer; camiler kışlamız, müminler asker' which was read by our President in Siirt in 1997 and later used as an excuse for the political ban imposed on him by the mentality of tutelage, at the CHP group meeting. Mr. Özgür Özel should also hang the lines of this poem in his office and consider the messages in this poem as a source of inspiration to keep the party's politics on a national line by remembering them every day."
"HE MUST ANSWER KILIÇDAROĞLU'S SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS" In his last post, Çelik said, "Mr. Özgür Özel should turn back instead of producing unsuccessful polemics against our President and should spend his energy on solving the endless internal crises of the CHP. Mr. Özel should first answer the serious allegations of the previous CHP chairman, Mr. Kılıçdaroğlu. Then he should bring those who act like 'co-chair' in the CHP under control. If he successfully emerges from the internal conflicts of the CHP, he should allocate time to real political issues."
WHAT DID ÖZGÜR ÖZEL SAY? Özgür Özel said, "Trump praised Erdoğan, praised him, praised him, and Erdoğan was quite happy about it. Now this Trump says, 'The Palestinians will not live in Gaza, I will distribute them to the surrounding countries.' This is exile, this is forced relocation, this is a crime against humanity. How can Erdoğan remain silent about this? Did those who voted for him vote so that Palestine would be left alone like this? Every day he remains silent on this issue is illegitimate. If you turn your face to Israel and your back to Palestine, you lose your legitimacy. Here is another reason to put the ballot box as soon as possible and ask the nation, 'What do you say now?'. When the time comes to fight with Israel, when it pays off, Erdoğan, who benefits from this in multiple ways, now has an agreement with Israel and America, and they will establish an order in Syria. There, the co-chair of the Greater Middle East Project, the former co-chair, but apparently, it has not been left in the past, they have also given a role to the co-chair there," he said.
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