İbrahim Halil Oral resigns from İYİ Party

İYİ Party Founders' Board member and Ankara MP Koray Aydın announced the day before yesterday that he had resigned from his party.

FIRST RESIGNATION FROM AYDIN'S TEAM

Following Koray Aydın, the first resignation from Aydın's team in the İYİ Party has also arrived.

21st Term Bitlis and 27th Term Ankara MP İbrahim Halil Oral announced his resignation.

Oral's statement is as follows:

My esteemed fellow travelers,

Precious Turkish nation,

I am writing these lines from Ahlat, the ancient Turkish land known as the Dome of Islam (Kubbetü'l-İslam), where the first rays of the İYİ Party sun rose, where the Movement of the Brave took its first steps, and where it held its first program.

The İYİ Party, which set out from my hometown of Ahlat with great meaning, hope, and faith, became a political alternative for every segment of our society, especially Turkish nationalists, and succeeded in bringing citizens of every inclination under one roof.

The İYİ Party showed the entire Turkish nation that it was not just "another party among parties."

With the Grand Assembly held in Ankara on April 1, 2018, which was attended by more than 120 thousand citizens according to police records, it struck fear into both the government and the chronic opposition that kept the government standing.

Unfortunately, this spirit did not last very long.

Instead of growing as a movement of hope and faith, as a Movement of the Brave and the Good, and meeting with the main backbone of society, this movement began to take on a management approach that preferred narrow factionalism and narrow politics.

Many of the İYİ Party's laborers, deputies, and high-level administrators were marginalized.

Despite our many warnings and the statements I personally emphasized—which were then distorted from their original purpose—the Six-Party Table process could not be managed correctly during the 2023 General Elections.

The provincial and district congresses held before the election yielded no result other than marginalizing the organizations.

The party was polarized through the deputy nomination primaries, which were held in some cities but not others, and which contained many irregularities—such as the counting of scattered ballot boxes—in which I did not find it appropriate to participate.

Subsequently, a token grand assembly was held. No explanation was given, the reasons for the mistakes were not evaluated, and no new hope was presented.

While heading toward the 2024 Local Elections, neither the grassroots nor the figures who could be called the wise men of the party were listened to.

The result was frustration.

Throughout all these processes, our opinions and suggestions were not taken into account. In fact, no ideas or suggestions were even requested from us.

After our 5th Extraordinary Grand Assembly, we did not see much in the name of embracing, unity, and solidarity.

The visit to the Palace made by the Founding Chairwoman, Ms. Meral Akşener, without the party's knowledge, remains a situation in need of explanation.

While the İYİ Party was the only party that maintained its status as the last bastion against the palace regime and the one-man mentality, unfortunately, this bastion has begun to collapse from within. Ms. Akşener has deemed even a convincing explanation too much for her fellow travelers who have believed in and trusted her for years.

The current party management did not take a clear stance on this issue either.

This entire picture has deeply wounded me and everyone like me who sees politics as a mobilization of the heart.

I have observed that there has been no change in mentality within the İYİ Party management, which has shown us that our opinions, suggestions, thoughts, and our very selves are not needed, even after the grand assembly.