Kılıçdaroğlu breaks his silence on the party congress investigation! 'I am being threatened...'

Journalist Nevşin Mengü had brought up a claim regarding the CHP Congress investigation. Mengü alleged, "According to the information I obtained, the prosecutor sent a message to Kılıçdaroğlu saying, 'If you come and testify that there was no corruption at the congress and that you did not see or witness such a thing, we will close the file.' However, Kemal Bey still did not go to testify."

Our silence is not a lack of words, but a responsibility…

On November 20, 2023, just two weeks after our 38th Congress, some allegations regarding the congress began to be reflected in the public eye. In the video I published that day, I clearly and…

— Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu (@kilicdarogluk) May 30, 2025

The 7th Chairman of the CHP, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, wrote a post on his social media account titled "Our silence is not a lack of words, but a responsibility" and stated the following:

'I AM RECEIVING THREATS TO MY LIFE'

"Our silence is not a lack of words, but a responsibility…

On November 20, 2023, just two weeks after our 38th Congress, some allegations regarding the congress began to be reflected in the public eye. In the video I published that day, I clearly and decisively expressed everything necessary to protect our party.

However, since that day, I have been subjected to a systematic lynching campaign through organized troll accounts that operate in the dark while hiding their identities.

I am receiving explicit threats to my life.

There are those who threaten to hang me from an electric pole, and those who want me to be shot with a gun…

Threats, slanders, and dirty campaigns have all come together.

We are facing a broad front that extends from fake social media accounts to funded so-called academics and some journalists who pollute their profession with slander and manipulation.

And unfortunately, some politicians who once stood by my side for the sake of their political futures, and who once considered walking with me a point of pride, have now joined this chorus after drifting to other paths.

They are all demanding in unison that I speak on a subject about which I have no information and in which I have no involvement.

'ANYONE WHO FEARS YOU IS A COWARD'

Yet, we must walk without deviating from the true agenda of this nation.

We must rely on the public, not the personal; on the truth, not gossip.

I am a politician who speaks to the people, not through polemics.

And everyone who knows me knows: If there is a reality, I will never refrain from expressing it without bending or twisting it, and with an upright stance.

To those who will hang me from poles,

to those who will shoot me with guns,

to those who will burn me, stone me,

to those who will not let me take a step and to the sycophants: Anyone who fears you is a coward.

I am addressing everyone here who is waiting for a message from me:

Let everyone know; we are capable of drowning the enemies of this party within the sanctuary of this very party."