Striking message from Ekrem İmamoğlu: We will wage a great struggle against mafia-style politics

Ekrem İmamoğlu said the following in a letter he sent to his party's rally in Bolu:

“I have missed you all very much. Since March 19, you have been standing up for your country, your freedom, the rule of law, and democracy. You are multiplying in every square, growing in every city. Just like the patriots who rose up during the years of the national struggle, today you are rising up for the future of our country, for the guarantee of our right to vote and be elected, and for justice, equality, and freedom.

This square is the square of resistance. This square is the square of the grandchildren of Köroğlu, the symbol of resistance. This square is the square of the nation. I extend my heartfelt thanks to our Bolu Mayor, Mr. Tanju Özcan, who has won the love of the people of Bolu filling this square and works to serve Bolu, and to the CHP Bolu Provincial Chair, Mr. Tahsin Mert Karagöz.”

“Those who keep us in dungeons and prevent us from fulfilling our desire to serve our nation have a problem with the nation itself. This government, which spends all the state's resources to protect its own seat, has a problem with the nation. A handful of people are committing all kinds of lawlessness and all kinds of evil so that what the nation says does not happen and the national will is not freely manifested. They are usurping the citizens' right to free elections and preventing them from exercising their right to be elected. Nations whose right to free elections has been usurped are nations that have been taken captive in their own homeland.

We, as a nation, will never allow such captivity, such dishonor, and we will not allow it. With the spirit of struggle that comes from our glorious history, we will protect the gains of the Republic to the end. Our nation will also protect its will. Because, whatever the nation says, that is what happens. This is what the Republic is. We do not accept, and our nation does not accept, those who cannot digest the Republic and democracy, and those who cannot accept the will of the nation.”

“We will wage a great struggle against mafia-style politics, and against all organizations that are tutelary, self-serving, partisan, and that disregard the will of the nation.

No power can bring to its knees the self-confident, sincerely connected citizens of a country where justice and freedom prevail for everyone, everywhere. Our history is the history of those who do not bow to oppression. We will end these oppressions, we will disperse this great darkness. Turkey will be a country of justice, freedom, prosperity, abundance, and blessings. Turkey will be a country of happy and free people who live without fear of the future and who do not know what it means to struggle for a living. Everything will be very beautiful.”

News Source: 12punto