20.05.2026 16:50
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the former Chairman of the Republican People's Party (CHP), made a manifesto-like statement that made a huge impact on the agenda. Calling for a purge within the party, some CHP deputies could not remain indifferent to Kılıçdaroğlu's video.
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Former Chairman of the Republican People's Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu made striking statements in a video message he released amid ongoing debates over \"absolute nullity\" within the party. While calling for the purification of the CHP, he also responded harshly to criticisms directed at him.
\"DIRTY POLITICS FIRST ROTS THE CONSCIENCE\"
In his statement, Kılıçdaroğlu said: \"My dear friends, my courageous comrades-in-arms and fellow citizens with a conscience in this beautiful country... The future of a nation is shaped by the wisdom, conscience, and morality of politics. The legitimate tables of the nation are blessed with clean politics. Because dirty politics first rots the conscience, then destroys morality, and finally sets its sights on the people's bread. That is why keeping politics clean and bringing abundance to the nation's table is a debt of honor for everyone involved in politics in this country.
\"THIS HEAVY RESPONSIBILITY...\"
And my friends... This heavy responsibility falls, above all and more than anyone else, on the members of the Republican People's Party. Because the Republican People's Party is a great plane tree. The Republican People's Party is the will of this nation to rise from poverty. It has faced coups but never bowed down. It has been shut down but never surrendered. It has endured oppression but never kneeled, never been captured.
CHP CANNOT BE A HAVEN FOR THE UNLAWFUL
My friends... The Republican People's Party is a spirit founded by the great leader Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and manifested in our nation's will for independence. There can be no betrayal of this spirituality. The Republican People's Party is not a legacy left to us. Our party is a sacred trust entrusted to us. A trust cannot be tainted, nor can it be slandered. Brothers and sisters... Especially, the shadow of this great plane tree can never, ever be a haven for what is unlawful and polluted. When necessary, it knows how to purify itself and conduct its internal accounting. But it never deviates from its path. Because this march is a march for power. Because this march is a march to revive the hope of the people.
\"I DISMISS YOUR SLANDERS AND THREATS\"
There are those who expect me to stay silent or say otherwise. Listen to me carefully: Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu does not negotiate the interests of the nation and his party for his own personal gain! He may turn to dust a thousand times and bloom a thousand times in the hands of his honest and upright children, but he will not bend or break! Your slanders and threats mean nothing to me. I speak the truth; I stand by the facts. Look; no one should ever expect anything else from Bay Kemal, who has dedicated over seventy years of his life to the people's struggle for justice, never swallowed a single unlawful bite, and whose only legacy to his children is the moral struggle he has waged. May our minds not follow our egos, may our path never stray from honesty, and may our conscience be our guide. Stay well, my dear fellow citizens.\"
SOME DEPUTIES SHARED THE VIDEO AGAIN
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu's video was reshared by some CHP deputies. Among these deputies were Gamze Akkuş İlgezdi, Deniz Demir, Hüseyin Yıldız, Mahir Polat, Rıfat Nalbantoğlu, Semra Dinçer, Sevda Erdan Kılıç, Barış Bektaş, Ali Fazıl Kasap, Mustafa Adıgüzel, Hasan Öztürkmen, Gürsel Erol, Ali Öztunç, Ali Karaoba, Faik Öztrak, Kadim Durmaz, and İnan Akgün Alp.
FIRST REACTION FROM THE CHP
CHP Deputy Group Chair Ali Mahir Başarır, commenting on the video released by former CHP Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on his social media account, said: \"The CHP is a spotless party. Because it is a spotless party, we marched with Kemal Bey from Ankara to Istanbul on the 'Justice March'. Why? Because a elected deputy of ours had been arrested. If Mr. Chairman Kılıçdaroğlu were still sitting in that seat today; for example, when our very valuable Zeydan Karalar, who served as mayor for two or three terms and was elected during his tenure, was arrested, he would have marched with us too.\"
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