DEM Party reacts to racism in example given by IYI Party's Olgun regarding Cevdet Yılmaz: 'You cannot stomach it'

At the TBMM General Assembly, which convened under the chairmanship of Deputy Speaker of the Parliament Bekir Bozdağ, theMinistry of Labor and SocialSecurityand the Presidency's 2026budgetnegotiations began. Thepolitical parties with groups in the parliament held discussions on the budgetsand voiced their proposals.

IYI Party Antalya Deputy Uğur Poyraz stated that during the AKP's 23-year rule, under the heading of "opening" process, theystated that Kurds were the subject of the processes being carried out,but that theseprocesses were every timeindexed to developments in Syria. He said that with thestart of the civil war in Syria in 2011,thereconciliationprocessthat the process wasinitiated, and that in 2014, after Russian President Vladimir Putin declared he was on the side of Assad,theopening process was shelved, and in 2024, with thecollapseof the Damascus regime in Syria,itwas once againthepeace process was brought to theagenda. Poyraz asked, "If the Assad regime had remained in power in Syria, would the Kurds and democracy have come toyour mind?" heasked.

The pin theprocesses, instead ofKurds, who are equal and honorable citizens,the PKK and convicted terrorist Abdullah Öcalanwere taken as interlocutors, Poyraz noted, andcontinued hisremarks as follows:

"Mr.Yılmaz, as a statesman of Zazadescent, you are a valuableexample of what being a citizen of the Republic of Turkey means.You are a valuable example."

Today, by constantly pressing thenerves of our nation, calling aterrorist a "freedom fighter", the organization's ringleadare you satisfied with the insistence on calling him 'sir', and having slogans chanted in his favor under this roof? Every openingof yours is presented under the title of 'democratization'. At other times, you usurp the rights of the Kurd that stem from our Constitution, and label the Kurd as a terrorist or terror-linkedindividual, while at other times youtry to present this as a solution.declaring them, appointing trustees to their choices, andinyourreconciliation periods, are you offering the rights of the Kurdsstemming from our Constitutionas afavor?

Finally, 10 thousand publicofficer, 50,000 people, 40,000 of whom were civilians,were martyred. When we also calculate the number of neutralized terrorists,we are looking at a figure reaching 150,000. In the parallel commission, 4 topics come to the fore: Education in the mother tongue, definition of citizenship, amnesty and integration in the person of Öcalan.The War of Independence was fadministrationof the Veteran Parliament under the roofI am ashamed to ask the Vice President, butI feel pain, but was all this death for educationin the mother tongue?Was all this death for the definition ofcitizenship?was it for China? Was all this death for freedom for the murderer Öcalan?"

DEM PARTY'S RACISM REACTIOD

DEM Party Group Deputy Chairman Sezai Temelli said, "Just because there is a Kurdish Vice President, you are making these racist remarks from this podium.witnessed the warmth as well. I am glad you were there, and we will continue to be there. Youcannot stomach the fact thatKurds are equal citizensin this country. The nameof thiseverywhere in theworld is racismis lukewarm," he said.