Mansur Yavaş to meet with Ekrem İmamoğlu

Ankara Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Mansur Yavaş will visit Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, who is being held in Silivri, tomorrow.   

HE VISITED HIM PRIVATELY TODAY 

CHP Leader Özgür Özel had visited Ekrem İmamoğlu, who was arrested as part of a corruption investigation, earlier this morning. 

Özel spoke as follows after the meeting in Silivri: 

"We are in Silivri. It is the year 2025. I have just visited Ekrem İmamoğlu, who was elected mayor of the world's most well-known metropolis three times with increasing votes, two valuable mayors, Resul Emrah Şahan and Murat Çalık, and on behalf of all our friends who have been held captive here in our place for years, Gezi detainee Tayfun Kahraman, in Silivri, as the leader of the Republican Party, the founding party of the Republic, the party that came first in the last elections, and the party that won municipalities representing 80 percent of the economy and 65 percent of the population in the last elections. There are 3 mayors I could not visit yet. I will meet with them on my next visit here to make it to the group meeting. I am ashamed on behalf of those who govern Turkey for the atmosphere I am in and this situation that Turkey is being forced to endure. But they have no shame left. I am ashamed."

"Friends, unfortunately, we are in Silivri, it is the year 2025. I have just visited Ekrem İmamoğlu, who was elected mayor of the world's most well-known metropolis three times with increasing votes, two valuable mayors, Resul Emrah Şahan and Murat Çalık, and on behalf of all our friends who have been held captive here in our place for years, Gezi detainee Tayfun Kahraman, in Silivri, as the leader of the Republican Party, the founding party of the Republic, the party that came first in the last elections, and the party that won municipalities representing 80 percent of the economy and 65 percent of the population in the last elections. There are three mayors I could not visit. I will meet with them on my next visit to make it to the group meeting," he said. Özel stated the following:

"THE ENTIRE WORLD PRESS IS FOLLOWING US"

"I am ashamed on behalf of those who govern Turkey for the atmosphere I am in and this situation that Turkey is being forced to endure. They have no shame left, I am ashamed. Because they are trying to break the wrist they cannot bend through the judiciary. 'I could not defeat Ekrem İmamoğlu, I cannot defeat him, I will not be able to defeat him. Then I will get rid of him.' They thought it was that easy. It is not just the millions in Saraçhane that they did not account for. What they did not account for is the 15.5 million people who drew the attention of the whole world to Turkey last Sunday. That is those who could hear the news, access it, get up and come, and reach it. Now the entire world press is following us. I did not do this. This is not an interest I created. This is the nation's reaction to the injustice, lawlessness, and disgrace created by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The March 19 civil coup attempt was prevented by the will of the nation and the people pouring into the streets against the coup plotters, friends. On the night of July 15, an organization they raised and grew themselves, to whom they gave tanks and whose planes they took off, attempted a coup. The citizens protected what came out of the ballot box. Those who poured into the streets on July 15 did not do so for Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's sake... We called, everyone called. We also ran, we went to the Parliament. They protected the will of the people and the fact that governments in this country change through the ballot box."

"WHAT IS BEING PROTECTED IS NOTHING BUT THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE"

"And now, what is being protected is nothing but the will of the people. My mother, who is 96 years old and climbs those stairs with two canes in her hands, is protecting the right to vote and be elected for women, which was entrusted to her by Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, while also protecting her child Ekrem. The woman who comes carrying her three-year-old baby or the baby in her womb is carrying the possibility that the child she carries will one day be the 17th or 18th President of this country so that her own child does not become a subject to someone raised from father to son. The father who holds his 1.5-year-old child's hand and makes them draw a heart on the ballot box carried the hope of his child living in one of the richest countries in the world to the ballot box. The nation is rebelling against a mentality that says, 'Let me stay in power even if the country burns,' a mentality that has gone so mad that it has burned 60 percent of the reserves accumulated through begging and pleading in two years just out of fear of Ekrem İmamoğlu, and is impoverishing this country."

"THEY ARE HEADS HELD HIGH, FOREHEADS CLEAR, LIKE LIONS"

"I met with three lions inside who are standing tall, heads held high, foreheads clear, proud of themselves, their families, and their colleagues, who are not afraid, and who are only feared by cowards but are not afraid themselves. They are like lions, like lions. If there is any anxiety, it is left to Tayyip Erdoğan. We can already see the fear on his face. I am telling Tayyip Erdoğan, who is bursting with envy and jealous of those 15.5 million votes cast. From now on, that photograph belongs to history. You force people: 'I will hire you, give me your ID'; they ask for an appointment, 'Give me your ID'; 'I will buy coal, give me your ID'; 'I am hungry, social assistance, give me your ID'... You made 11.5 million members over 23 years by giving quotas to all provincial heads, district heads, and youth branches, recording and recording them. 15.5 million people ran to the ballot boxes that were unofficial, had no penalty for not voting, and didn't even have a record. The democracy revolution and its wind are behind Ekrem Bey and our friends. The democracy revolution has trampled Tayyip Bey's anti-democratic order. The palace regime has been crushed under the cane of that elderly aunt. The palace regime has been crushed under the size 32 sneakers of that 1.5-year-old child. This palace regime has been condemned by consciences and has embarrassed its own voters. I know that no AK Party member, no MHP member voted for this intolerance. The shame of those who commit this intolerance is not on your backs."

"LET ERDOĞAN GO MAD, WE WILL TURN OUR HEARTS TO THE NATION"

"Voter who voted for the AK Party... I know you are ashamed too. Do not share this shame. To not share this shame, we are coming to celebrate the holiday with AK Party voters and MHP voters this holiday. The Republican People's Party celebrated and embraced the holiday with 16 opposition parties in Saraçhane during each of their visits until the holiday. We are not celebrating the holiday in Ankara this holiday. We celebrated with the opposition, why would we celebrate with this conspiracy created by the government? Will Akın Gürlek hold the holiday candy for me? Will Akın Gürlek hold the holiday candy? Will the judge he put in the 10th Criminal Court of Peace and had arrested, whom he took as his dearest, pour cologne on our hands? This holiday, the members of the Republican People's Party and its 15.5 million soldiers will celebrate this holiday in 81 provinces, 973 districts, and all towns and villages together with our nation. This holiday will have a new surprise for Tayyip Erdoğan. We are not stopping. We will continue to surprise, strengthen, and frighten. As long as Özgür Özel comes to Silivri to see his friends, comrades, political colleagues, and mayors, no matter how mad Tayyip Erdoğan gets, we will all turn our hearts to our nation together. At the first opportunity, we will get rid of him and this nest of evil. I thank you all."

News Source: 12punto