Did Özel go to the Southeast at Erdoğan's request? 'Some website or other spread this'

Journalist Fatih Altaylı hosted CHP leader Özgür Özel.

Altaylı asked, "There was a perception created, or it was perceived, that you were tasked by the government to go to the Southeast. Did Tayyip Bey or someone else say, 'Özgür Bey, take a look at the situation'?"

Özel responded as follows:

SOUTHEAST PLAN

First, let me say this; I announced that I would go to the Southeast at the end of June, and I was thinking of doing it towards September. In fact, my intention was to be in Diyarbakır on September 1, World Peace Day, but as you know, I broke my foot on August 15. When I broke my foot, visiting 6 cities in 6 days... I had also thought about visiting Demirtaş either before or after to make it a 7-day trip. And then to read about it at the group meeting. We had such a political plan and goal.

We decided to do it before it got too cold. When we announced it, Devlet Bey had not yet made his two Tuesday speeches. When the first one happened, my friends asked, "Should we postpone it?" I said, "My foot is already broken this time; if it happens again, my head would have to be broken," I said.

What happened... I wish my head had been broken instead of those 5 martyrs, but I said I would go because I had announced that trip long before. One day before I left, Bahçeli's remarks about freedom for Abdullah Öcalan came out. The trip was interpreted in an even more different way.

The big lie you are asking about... our deputy Umut Akdoğan was asked two questions during a television broadcast. There were 20 minutes between them.

To the question, "Is Erdoğan aware that Bahçeli will shake the hand of the DEM?", Umut Bey's answer is this: They meet frequently; he might have definitely said this: 'You go and walk around there, shake their hands, let's see what happens in Turkey,' is what Umut Bey says Erdoğan told Bahçeli.

REACTION TO TÜRKER ERTÜRK AND 23 DERECE

In the second question, regarding the question of 'How did Özgür Bey make the decision to go to Diyarbakır?', a website edited it; it is the website of someone who published the slander against our friend Gülşah and against whom I have filed a criminal complaint. This time, they combined the part about 'What is Özgür Bey aiming for by going to the Southeast, they meet with Tayyip Bey frequently' with the 'You go and shake their hands' part, edited it, and spread it.

The last person to do this was a person named Türker Ertürk the other night. Before that, some website or other spread this. We announced that the news was false within the scope of the Disinformation Combat Plan. It is not something that could happen. I have not had a single conversation with Tayyip Bey since he came to the CHP.