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Kılıçdaroğlu's harsh response to Fatih Portakal: 'Anyone who makes an allegation they cannot prove is a coward'

Journalist Fatih Portakal had stated regarding the controversial remarks by CHP Afyonkarahisar Mayoral candidate Burcu Köksal, "I cannot prove it, but I think she received the instruction from Kılıçdaroğlu." Kılıçdaroğlu responded to Portakal via X.

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Former CHP Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu responded via X to journalist Fatih Portakal's remarks following Burcu Köksal's statements, in which he said, "I cannot prove it, but I think she received the instruction from Kılıçdaroğlu."

Kılıçdaroğlu stated the following:

"I LEAVE YOU TO THE CONSCIENCE OF MY NATION AND HONEST JOURNALISTS"

"To my dear Nation;

Would Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, who organized social opposition despite everyone and everything, who braved assassinations, attacks, lynching attempts, and slanders for this cause, who grew the Nation Alliance like a sapling planted in the soil and watched it flourish with pride, ever harm the sapling he planted? Would he ever wish ill upon the party in whose shadow he cooled himself like a giant plane tree? Would he set fire to his own home? I leave it to your conscience because I have nowhere else to go…

To the impudent who do not know their place;

1- Calling the current Chairman of the Republican People's Party incompetent is lack of class, it is rudeness! I, above all, will not allow this!

2- Making a mouthful of slander by saying "I cannot prove it but" is not journalism, it is not humanity. It is disgrace! It is depravity!

3- Forget about giving such an instruction; any Chairman who even crosses such a thought through their mind, or wishes ill upon their party for even a moment, is a coward! Anyone who spews hatred to look good to some people and puts forward an allegation they cannot prove is also A COWARD!

Fatih Portakal, your slanders are no different from the slanders, fake and montage videos thrown by the current government during election times; I again take refuge in God from the slanderers. I leave you to the conscience of my nation and honest journalists."