CHP's Gökçen reminds Erdoğan of 'Gezi Park'

CHP Deputy Chair Gökçe Gökçen criticized the remark made by President and AKP Chair Recep Tayyip Erdoğan regarding the CHP deputies' sit-in protest in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) to draw attention to the ongoing judicial crisis: "If you want to sit, go to the park." Gökçen asked, "Let us remind him, the last time we went to the park, you were a bit uncomfortable; are you sure?"

CHP Deputy Chair Gökçen criticized Erdoğan's words, which he used during his group meeting regarding the CHP deputies' sit-in protest in the TBMM. As reported by Anka, Gökçen's written statement today is as follows:

"The constitutional system is a whole; if you attempt to puncture it, this is an insurrection"

"The issue cannot be seen as a difference in legal interpretation between judicial bodies. As clearly stated in Article 153 of the Constitution, Constitutional Court decisions bind the legislative, executive, and judicial organs, administrative authorities, and real and legal persons. No exceptions have been made to this regulation. Neither MP Can Atalay is an exception to this, nor is Tayyip Erdoğan. Neither norm review decisions are an exception to this, nor are individual application decisions. If you say today that you are throwing one article of the Constitution into the trash, someone else will throw the article regulating the President's powers into the trash, and others will attempt to throw the first three articles into the trash. The constitutional system is a whole; if you attempt to puncture it, this is an insurrection.

"The Court of Cassation is trying to interfere with the authority of the Parliament and is demanding an account"

The TBMM, as a result of the consensus of all parties, had elected MP Can Atalay to the Human Rights Commission. The unlawful decision rendered regarding Can Atalay had not been read in the TBMM General Assembly. Now, the Court of Cassation is trying to interfere with the authority of the Parliament and is demanding an account by saying, 'How can you not strip him of his parliamentary status?' As the Republican People's Party group, this is why we are not leaving the Parliament, the General Assembly. In his speech today, Erdoğan said, 'If you want to sit, go to the park,' in reaction to our sit-in protest in the Parliament. Let us remind Tayyip Erdoğan: The last time we went to the park, you were a bit uncomfortable; are you sure?"