Kılıçdaroğlu advisor İmambakır Üküş calls on IYI Party for 'Karamahmutoğlu': 'What should happen is...'
İmambakır Üküş, who was seen in footage shouting "We won't allow it. We will fight, we will lose" during the discussions surrounding the withdrawal of former CHP Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu after the first round of voting at the CHP Congress, has issued a call to the IYI Party in his article titled "A third way for Istanbul; Azmi Karamahmutoğlu." Üküş stated, "What should happen is for the IYI Party not to field a candidate in Istanbul. Azmi Karamahmutoğlu should be the joint candidate of the Victory Party and the IYI Party."
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İmambakır Üküş, who was revealed to have shouted "We won't allow it. We will fight, we will lose" to former CHP Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu after the first round of voting at the CHP Congress, has issued a call to the IYI Party.
In his article, where he stated that the IYI Party's situation in Istanbul is more difficult than anyone else's, Üküş said that what should happen is "for Azmi Karamahmutoğlu to be the joint candidate of the Victory Party and the IYI Party."
It also emerged that Üküş attended the meeting where the Victory Party's Istanbul candidate, Azmi Karamahmutoğlu, was introduced.
The relevant section of Üküş's article is as follows:
"WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN IS FOR THE IYI PARTY NOT TO FIELD A CANDIDATE"
"Everyone has a difficult task in Istanbul.
But the IYI Party's task is more difficult than anyone else's.
Their choices in Istanbul and Ankara will put the IYI Party in a difficult position in every sense.
Because they will be accused of fielding candidates to ensure the defeat of the two candidates they were proposing to be President until just yesterday.
It is truly a difficult situation.
Let alone being presidential candidates; Ekrem İmamoğlu and Mansur Yavaş were by the side of IYI Party Chairwoman Meral Akşener at many of the IYI Party's regional meetings.
They have now fallen into the position of a party that wants those names to lose, despite having campaigned with them province by province on May 14.
If those names win, they will have won despite the IYI Party and Meral Akşener.
If they lose, people will say they lost because of the IYI Party and Meral Akşener.
It is truly a difficult situation.
In Istanbul, they might also end up having been defeated by the Victory Party and Azmi Karamahmutoğlu.
What should happen is for the IYI Party not to field a candidate in Istanbul.
Azmi Karamahmutoğlu should be the joint candidate of the Victory Party and the IYI Party.
Together, they should offer an option to the Turkish nationalist voter."