Breaking News... İmamoğlu calls out, telling people to stand up: 'The great Turkish nation will not surrender to a coup! It's now or never!'

Following the "absolute nullity" ruling against the Republican People's Party (CHP), a scuffle broke out between supporters of Kılıçdaroğlu and CHP members in front of the Headquarters in the morning hours.

As of 14:20, police began the evacuation operation. While the iron railings of the backyard were being cut, the door of the CHP Headquarters was broken down. Police teams entered the party building with a harsh intervention.

While the tension continues, CHP's imprisoned presidential candidate and Mayor of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) Ekrem İmamoğlu made a statement through his lawyers.

İmamoğlu's statement was published by the Presidential Candidate Office account.

İmamoğlu's message is as follows:

*The absolute nullity ruling regarding our party's 38th Ordinary Congress is a palace coup.*

Both those who gave the order and those who carried it out are known.

What they call "null and void" is not the CHP administration, but the sacred will of the Turkish nation.

*A rebellion has been launched against national sovereignty through the courts.*

The court, which makes decisions "in the name of the Turkish nation," is destroying the Republic and democracy by deeming the national will null and void.

You will all be held accountable for the illegalities you have committed!

Those who attempt to determine the fate of this nation, those who try to take over the will of this nation, you will experience the same thing that those before you experienced.

Today, the same people are in the same place! *Coup plotters, heads of judicial branches, puppets, and internal traitors acting as trustees! You are all in the same place!*

Our place has not been, and will not be, alongside those who are hostile to the national will.

We are aware of the illegal maneuvers of the coup plotters, the *preparations for snap elections*, and the efforts to occupy the main opposition; we are aware of them all.

Those who inflict all kinds of pain on the nation to avoid leaving their seats have *transitioned to the final stage of their reign of fear* with these operations.

*We have never lost an election and we have become Turkey's leading party with the will of the nation.*

*I stand with my comrade, my Chairman Özgür Özel; we will continue the struggle together with perseverance and determination.*

*My great nation!*

Followers of the *Great Leader Atatürk*, who said, "There are no hopeless times, there are hopeless people":

*Do not worry about the difficulties we are experiencing to protect our future, the Republic, and democracy.*

*STAND UP!*

Raise our voices and our anger together, shoulder to shoulder!

Let us teach a lesson to the political engineers who fear their own nation, to those obsessed with seats and power, to the pawns, and to the incompetent ambitious ones.

*My dear nation!*

*We will not be afraid!*

Are you not tired of being uneasy and suffering every day?

If we remain silent, after the politicians, the sports and art worlds, and the universities, it will be your turn, our nation's turn.

*Political party leaders,*

*The issue is not a CHP issue!*

*We must not just defend the line, we must defend the entire territory!*

If you truly believe that you represent the nation, you must immediately defend the Republic, democracy, and justice in the strongest way possible.

*The nation is calling us all and saying, "do it now"!*

In these lands, the halay, the zeybek, and the horon are all danced standing tall. *We will stand tall so that the nation will not bow down!*

With our minds, our hearts, and our conscience, we must win as a nation.

*No madman can put chains on the Turkish nation!*

Today is the day to preserve and defend the national will, national sovereignty, and our unity and solidarity.

*The noble blood in our veins commands this to 86 million!*

In defiance of the coup plotters and their collaborators, we must launch the struggle in its entirety.

The will, determination, and guidance of our nation will be our sole guide!

*THE GREAT TURKISH NATION WILL NOT SURRENDER TO A COUP!*

*IT'S NOW OR NEVER!*

News Source: 12punto