Kılıçdaroğlu makes statement on presidential candidacy

Highlights from Kılıçdaroğlu's statements are as follows:

I express my thoughts on normalization to Özgür Özel from time to time, but I do not make such a statement to the public unless there is a mandatory situation. Normalization happens with the public.

We did not discuss normalization with Özel.

Erdoğan is someone who insults his own people; there is no institution in the country he has not insulted.

He made the 'drunkard' accusation against the country's two great founders.

Would one stand up for a fraud!

How can you normalize with someone who has corrupted justice in the country for twenty years?

Erdoğan works for himself and his family, not for the state... They have stripped the state of being a state; would you choose someone as an ambassador who has not read a single article on foreign policy in their entire life?

Can you tell someone who has never appeared in front of a television in their life to conduct an interview? They have finished merit in the state, and now we are going to sit down and normalize with these people...

REGARDING THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN BAHÇELİ AND ÖZEL

Whatever a politician says on the podium, they should say the same thing outside; otherwise, you are deceiving the public. Does speaking differently fit the ethics of politics?

Does it reinforce trust in the politician? These events have brought politics in the country to a point of distrust. If you say something, you must stand behind it.

We worked on giving two salaries to retirees and we made this happen without experiencing normalization; we kept our word. If you normalize, Erdoğan stays.

"HE SACRIFICES EVERYTHING FOR HIS OWN INTEREST"

Erdoğan is one of the most untrustworthy names in politics. You promise that you will attack Israel and save the Palestinians, then you say Israel will attack us... These people are not governing the state; they are robbing the state for their own interests. He sacrifices everything for his own interest...

After Trump said he would disclose his assets, not a single word came out of his mouth.

I do not find it right that the Presidential seal was hung on the building during Erdoğan's visit to the CHP. This is the CHP, it is a party that founded the state, it is one of the most important parties in Turkey and the world.

Names close to the party's identity did not stand up.

Are there Kemalists, Özelists, and İmamoğlucus in the party?

We are CHP members; I do not find it right for such things to happen and be discussed. There are those there who uphold the identity and political ideology of the CHP.

Since other parties are leader-centric parties, if the leader goes, the parties end. But the CHP has maintained its existence for 101 years because people express their thoughts comfortably.

I have never interrupted any of my friends who criticized me. The CHP has a serious corporate identity.

Is there always debate in the CHP?

Different thoughts and opinions are discussed, and because society is not used to debate and is used to the words of a single leader, they see this as normal. Different thoughts and debates take place in the CHP, and this moves the party forward.

This is what we call democracy! When everything Erdoğan says is obeyed, this is not democracy.

THE ISSUE OF İMAMOĞLU RECEIVING A SENTENCE

Both the Court of Cassation and the appellate court will know their limits. The judge will do their judging, and the prosecutor will do their prosecuting. If you are taking orders from the palace, you will resign. Then it will be understood that you have a conscience and that you obey the laws. Then the public will embrace you, saying this is a righteous judge.

There is no feeling as valuable as justice.

LET'S SAY SUCH A SENTENCE IS GIVEN

Whatever is necessary will be done; such a decision will show that there is no justice in Turkey, this issue is that clear... I would also hold a Justice March for İmamoğlu.

ARE YOU STILL LIKE FATHER AND SON WITH EKREM BEY?

I want every one of our mayors to be successful, and I still think so.

IS THERE A TENSION BETWEEN EKREM AND MANSUR BEYS?

To be honest, there is talk of a presidential election, but it is still a very early topic...

WILL YOU BE A CANDIDATE AGAIN?

I will not be a candidate again; I have already been a presidential candidate once. But candidates will emerge from the party, of course, candidates will also emerge from other parties.

RESPONSE TO ERDOĞAN'S TÜRKEVİ OUTBURST

The Türkevi in question is now being mentioned in bribery and corruption. I am uncomfortable with this. Since bribery is ordinary for Erdoğan, he is not uncomfortable. However, this does not apply to me. I am uncomfortable.

We are living in a period where those who commit corruption are held in high esteem and respected. They don't even go to jail. After that, we will defend this palace regime; is such a thing possible?

If you do not hold those who commit corruption and injustice accountable, why are you doing politics?

WHY ARE YOU DOING POLITICS?

I do it to defend people's rights. I hold meetings with young people; they say they are not interested in politics, but I tell them that politics determines your life.

If we hadn't gone in front of TÜİK, how would the rights of civil servants and workers have been defended?

Does a country announce wrong inflation results? Two states have formed in our country; one is a palace state, where everything is free, even corruption is free...

They are managing the country like their father's farm.

IS THERE A DANGER OF A REGIME CHANGE IN TURKEY? IS LAICISM AND ATATÜRKISM A TARGET?

Someone who calls the founder of this state, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, and his close friend İsmet İnönü 'two drunkards' is sitting in the country's executive seat. Every citizen should think about this...

The legislative body has ceased to be a legislative body.

Erdoğan does not deign to come to parliament to make a statement regarding the claim he made himself that Israel will attack.

Can Erdoğan be a commander-in-chief? He is unaware of world balances; he denies what he said himself two days later.

He said he would go to Gaza; 7-8 years have passed, and he still hasn't been able to go.

CHP ALSO MADE THAT STATEMENT BUT COULD NOT GO

It was wrong! Preliminary talks are held, official meetings are held, and then the necessary steps are taken.

ARE YOU VERY ANGRY AT ÖZGÜR BEY?

No, he was a successful deputy chairman... His chairmanship is still new, and I hope he will be successful in this regard.

THERE ARE JOURNALISTS WHO TAKE MONEY...

I have filed lawsuits against some websites and journalists. Fatih Altaylı is already working for the AKP. Don't we know what he is doing? He was going to file a lawsuit; I am waiting.

MERAL AKŞENER WAS GOING TO FILE A LAWSUIT

I have not yet received any information that a lawsuit has been filed against me. If she had filed a lawsuit against me, the information would have arrived.

WHAT KIND OF MISTAKES DID YOU HAVE?

We must have made mistakes. We killed each other over our ethnic identities. The issue of faith is the same... They stood up and said you are a believer, that one is an unbeliever... Who are you putting yourself in the place of? The reason for the existence of the Table of Six was to end such artificial debates. We were going to meet within the framework of democracy. We came together to bring prosperity nationalism.

WERE YOU MARGINALIZED BECAUSE OF YOUR IDENTITY?

I did not experience such a problem. People's identity is their honor; one must respect it... I have never approached anyone based on such a topic. Politics means to administer, to manage. Making enemies is not politics. That is why there were coups.

They don't even know Yunus Emre; they want to raise a religious and vengeful generation.

WOULD YOU RE-ESTABLISH THE TABLE OF SIX?

Whoever defends democracy and human rights needs to unite. How else are you going to get 51 percent... The axis should be democracy and human rights. A moral and virtuous politics, not a politics that steals the sustenance of the poor...

WOULD THIS SUCCESS HAVE COME WITHOUT CHANGE?

When we held the meeting in Şanlıurfa, we knew we would win over 400 municipalities.

We will continue our struggle against injustice and corruption by speaking our minds. I went and explained it to those who, until yesterday, said 'it is a sin to press the seal under the six arrows of the CHP'.

We have a testament coming from Atatürk; we do not involve two things in politics: the Presidency of Religious Affairs and the Ministry of National Defense...