Invitation to Erdoğan from Özgür Özel! 'I dare you...'

Following the budget negotiations, political parties' group meetings have begun as of this week. CHP leader Özgür Özel made statements at his party's group meeting.

I am speaking at our party's group meeting https://t.co/IW6hWuPOpx

— Özgür Özel (@eczozgurozel) December 24, 2024

FACTORY EXPLOSION WHERE 12 PEOPLE DIED

Here are the highlights of Özel's statements:

"In this age, with this technology, and this education; such accidents, explosions, and such deaths for no reason do not happen in very few countries in the world. No one's child deserves to be blown up with 11 friends at the place where their mother works. Such pain is experienced in Turkey and will continue to be experienced.

There are precautions that the state should have taken regarding occupational safety. Such accidents do not happen in developed countries, and deaths do not occur. For 22 years, unions have been demanding worker safety here. Precautions are being taken regarding very dangerous lines of work. We are saddened again by explosions in other parts of Turkey. They will ask you this: 34,000 people have lost their lives in work accidents in 22 years. The numbers are so frightening.

"WE WILL CHANGE THIS GOVERNMENT"

We will follow this until those responsible for this are revealed. There is no possibility of getting this government to do anything. What we will do is; we will change this government. A government that sides with the worker and labor will come. Occupational safety is a sign written on a wall. I promise, occupational safety will be ensured before profit. A system where laborers are not massacred one by one or collectively is possible. And the CHP will establish this.

HELICOPTER CRASH IN MUĞLA

We are investigating the situation regarding the helicopter crash in Muğla. The situation is extremely suspicious. We are investigating what it was on duty for, whether it was forced to take off. We are working with those who previously performed this duty. We will do whatever is required of us here as well.

"WE COMMEMORATE OUR ISMET PASHA WITH MERCY"

Tomorrow, we will commemorate our hero of the War of Independence and our 2nd President, İsmet İnönü, on the anniversary of his passing. You cannot praise enough the hero commander of the Western Front, a great diplomat, for not even thinking about not handing over the administration when the multi-party system was transitioned to, and for not letting our army enter World War II, and for not dragging this country into disaster. CHP members are always proud of him. But those who govern the country, unable to say anything to Atatürk, attack him. We commemorate our İsmet Pasha once again with respect and mercy from our group.

The mother of Uğur Yıldız, one of the 9 workers who lost their lives in the İliç disaster, is here. In those days, the court appointed an expert. The expert saw those who gave the capacity increase permit as responsible. The signature belongs to Murat Kurum. The report was sent to a new expert to determine the percentages of fault. The new expert sent a report that would not upset the AK Party. Uğur Yıldız's mother is expressing her objection.

BURAK OĞRAŞ'S SUSPICIOUS DEATH

We will take care of her child. Mr. Murat, the father of Burak Oğraş, is also here. Burak Oğraş works at a hotel. They say you will go to the hotel in Antalya and do an internship. The old building of the hotel enters the guesthouse; no news has been heard from him for 14 years. His body is found in the hotel's pool. This struggle has been going on for 14 years. We said our Antalya Provincial Organization will socialize the issue. After these events, a lawsuit will be filed for 2 suspects. Those who offered money the day after the funeral, 11 years later, and who were said to be FETÖ's capital in those days, will be held accountable. You will silence, kill, and cover up a 16-year-old child. I am calling out to Emine Hanım. This child died in this hotel. As a mother, she should get information from Mr. Erdoğan regarding this matter.

Stating that they will also closely follow the case of motorcycle courier Samet Özgül, Özel said, "I want to remind once again that couriers should be under social security and that killer barriers should be turned into biker-friendly barriers. I embrace our motorcycle courier brothers and sisters, and I promise that I will be the follower of their problems."

"WE REJECT ERDOĞAN'S 'THOSE WHO REMAIN ARE ON OUR HEADS' APPROACH!"

We are calling out to Erdoğan; Syria needs to achieve both military and political stability quickly, and it needs to be made livable quickly with resources to be found from the world, and a correct plan needs to be implemented so that all refugees in Turkey can return to their countries. I reject Erdoğan's 'those who remain are on our heads' approach. They are sitting on the bread of these citizens in Turkey. The world is ready to give money, Europe is ready for cooperation. Everyone will return to their homeland. Our poor are enough for us; those who sit on your head cannot sit on our bread. Period.

And he is trying to get the citizen to accept another plan by exploiting their religious feelings by saying that we should protect our Prophet by making this a religious approach. If that were the case, when our kinsmen were fleeing from Bulgaria to Turkey, when we were opening our homes to our own kinsmen, Erdoğan was shouting at Özal like this: 'Oh Özal, our poor are enough for us, the nation has reached the point of selling his wife due to poverty,' he was becoming that ugly. Now he has come and is trying to impose this on Turkey with the approach of 'I made you a citizen, let me make you vote' to create a new voter potential in Turkey through Syrian refugees. It is clear what you said when they came from Bulgaria, and it is clear that there is no sincerity in what you say now. When those from Bulgaria came, Erdoğan was saying, "Oh Özal, our poor are enough for us. The nation is in a state where they will sell their wives due to poverty." Assad has left Syria. Everyone will return to their homeland. Those who sit on your head cannot sit on our bread.

APPOINTMENT OF TRUSTEES TO MUNICIPALITIES

Ahmet Özer has been detained for 55 days. While other mayors who were appointed trustees are being tried without arrest, we want to express once again the enemy law applied to Ahmet Özer. First, unlawful detention, then a lying secret witness. Now they have started searching for evidence. They have requested all of Ahmet Özer's phone records going back 20 years from today. They have done security screenings of everyone. Our eyes are on the matter. The unwritten indictment will enter the indictment of those who set up this conspiracy in the future.

HOUSE ARREST FOR ÖZLEM GÜRSES

Özlem Gürses will receive an award at METU. Go take her, take her statement, take her away, put her under house arrest. They say we are powerful, we can do anything, we can set everyone straight. This is not power. It is not power to extract a crime from a broken sentence formed by Özlem Gürses and present it."

MINIMUM WAGE AND PENSION SALARY OUTBURST

In 2024, they did not raise the minimum wage by 1 cent; according to TUIK, inflation is 47 percent. The real inflation of the minimum wage earner is 78 percent. The expectation in society came out above 30,000 TL. We said we are not in it below 30. Türk-İş announced that it should be 29,583 liras, DİSK described it as at least 34,000 TL. We will follow the process closely. They are mentioning absurd figures like 14,500 TL for retirees. Come to your senses. Give retirees the minimum wage. Together with the laborers and retirees, we will make those squares and the government too narrow for you. I dare you.

"I AM AGAINST ALL ONE-MAN RULES"

They say 'CHP is mourning Assad'. Assad was a one-man ruler, I am against one-man rulers. Mr. President, I have bad news for you, I am against all one-man rulers in the world. Erdoğan says he reads the developments in Syria correctly. We always called Assad, Assad; we didn't hold hands and go on vacation. Assad was a one-man ruler when Erdoğan was on vacation, when he was cursing him, and when he was saying 'come let's meet'. We neither beautified Assad nor called him 'Esed'. He used to call Sisi a murderer, now he calls him my brother, the same with Saudi Arabia. The CHP continues to act with the responsibility that a party walking towards power must carry. If he says we will entrust this place to Trump, and we to HTS, we are not there. We defend an administration where everyone is represented, democratic elections, and territorial integrity. We will never stop after seeing the beheading images by following HTS.

"IF YOU HADN'T LOST THE 200 BILLION DOLLARS..."

"At the worst calculation, there is a loss of 200 billion dollars. There is no one to argue that this 200 billion dollar loss does not stem from a decision Erdoğan made 14 years ago. What does Erdoğan boast about? Bridges, highways... If you hadn't lost that money, you could have built 153 Osmangazi Bridges, 19 Istanbul Airports. We remind Erdoğan of his responsibilities so that there are no new waves of migration and that the return is ensured as quickly as possible. The state cannot be governed with the mind of trolls who go to Aleppo and Damascus and distribute license plates. We have no eyes on anyone's inch of land."

"THE MAN WHO CANNOT GO OUT TO THE STREET"

At the end of his speech, Özel addressed AKP Chairman and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Reacting to Erdoğan targeting the CHP at his party's provincial congresses, Özel spoke as follows:

"You won't be able to go to the bazaar or the market, you will have the CHP booed, get out of here. I invite you not to the provincial congress, but to go to the markets of the provinces, to meet with the people of the districts. You man who cannot go out into the street, you man of congresses, you salon politician, come out to the street, I dare you, let's meet on the street."