Fatih Portakal lashes out at Bahçeli for threatening journalists! "If anything happens to them, Bahçeli is responsible"

MHP Chairman Devlet Bahçeli threatened journalists Barış Pehlivan, Murat Ağırel, Timur Soykan, Şule Aydın, and Barış Terkoğlu without naming them as soon as Parliament opened. SÖZCÜ TV main news anchor Fatih Portakal warned, "Look, if anything happens to Timur, Şule, Murat, Barış, or anyone else who criticizes him, the primary person responsible for this is Devlet Bahçeli."

Portakal said, "Parliament has opened. I will break down that whole into pieces for you first. I will explain the small pieces from Parliament. Then I will show the whole. Today is October 1st, Parliament was supposed to open. One comes out with good wishes, right? Not with bad feelings. Even if you have bad thoughts in your mind, you come out saying, 'Today Parliament is opening, at least let something auspicious come out of your mouth.' But Devlet Bahçeli was at the group meeting before Parliament opened. He finished as he started. He started with threats, he ended with threats."

"THE POWERFUL THROW WHATEVER THREATS THEY WANT"

Portakal used the following expressions:

"Devlet Bahçeli started this way and continues this way. Look, we are in a country without democracy, that's one thing. Also, if you are in power, it means you hold the power. We are in a place where the powerful provide justice, not where the power of justice exists. And we are in a country where there is no democracy. The powerful can throw whatever threats they want. He calls the main opposition party 'rotten,' he can say to journalists Barış Pehlivan, Murat Ağırel, Timur Soykan, Şule Aydın, Barış Terkoğlu, 'Watch your step, journalists, Halk TV'... He can find this authority in himself, but one needs to look at what came before."

"IF THE HITMAN DOES THIS, WHAT WOULD DEVLET BAHÇELİ NOT SAY"

We need to look at 24 hours ago. You know that hitman Eray Özyağcı, the person who killed Sinan Ateş, we are talking about the person who made a gun gesture with his hand to these journalists, Barış, Murat, Timur, in the courtroom. We are talking about a person who makes a gun gesture with his hand like this... A person who says I can kill you. If that person does this, what would Devlet Bahçeli not say? The power is in his hands...

"IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO THEM, BAHÇELİ IS RESPONSIBLE"

Look, if anything happens to Timur, Şule, Murat, Barış, or anyone else who criticizes him, the primary person responsible for this is Devlet Bahçeli.

"SHAME ON THE PUBLIC PROSECUTORS WHO DO NOT TAKE ACTION"

And shame on the public prosecutors who do not take action against those sentences right now. Because they are afraid, because there is nothing to do, because there is no justice in the country, because there is no power of justice in the country. There is Erdoğan's power in the country, there is Bahçeli's power in the country. I am talking about the threat, the man says 'You cannot say a word after my word, I will punish you if necessary,' that's it. But no Public Prosecutor comes out and asks, 'Wait a minute, Devlet Bahçeli, what are you saying?' They cannot ask. They cannot ask because of fear."