Kılıçdaroğlu responds to CHP MPs' 'Erdoğan's project' criticisms

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, who became the CHP Chairman again after the court accepted a complaint regarding the congress where he lost the chairmanship to Özgür Özel, and who initiated a 'purification' process as soon as he returned to the party, answered questions on a live broadcast on Sözcütv.

Kılıçdaroğlu, who has been heavily criticized by many circles due to the expulsion decisions he made, is answering the questions that people are curious about. Here are the highlights from Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu's interview:

Is he in cooperation with AKP Chairman and President Erdoğan?

Kılıçdaroğlu gave the following response to journalist Barış Terkoğlu's question, "Did you cooperate with Erdoğan?":

I have always criticized Erdoğan. Mr. Özgür said that we will negotiate with Erdoğan. What are you going to negotiate?

It is said that there is cooperation with Erdoğan, and cooperation with others. What does a person discuss with Erdoğan for 2 hours? After coming out, it is said that they discussed the party's problems. How does the CHP Chairman discuss the party's problems with an important actor of the AKP? Oh Özgür Özel, what did you discuss, what parts of the CHP did you discuss?

What does back-door diplomacy mean? All of these are being forgotten. Who brought the country to this state? What proposal came to overcome the problems the country is in, to save Turkey from coup-era laws? No! You need to produce politics.

Immediately after the event, that is, immediately after the congress, I explained some fundamental points to Mr. Özgür. I explained some of the problems the party is in and said that as a chairman, you need to know these.

After every municipal election, I would gather the mayors in this hall. First, a retired Court of Accounts auditor would explain what a municipality is, what it is not, and how expenditures are made. He would explain what a Court of Accounts auditor looks for when they come. An official from the Ministry of Interior would come, a sworn financial advisor would come and explain. Finally, I would come out and say, "Friends, just because you sat in the chair, don't say 'I am the mayor now, no one can touch me.' You will account for every penny. The money you spend is not yours, it is the people's money." We published a 7-point declaration. Why haven't these been done recently?

DID HE KNOW ABOUT THE COURT'S ABSOLUTE NULLITY RULING BEFOREHAND?

If I had known the ruling was coming, would I have released such a video a day before?

I already record normal videos during certain periods. Look, if you can prove that I went to court one day, talked to a judge one day, or had any relationship, I will resign from the CHP Chairmanship tomorrow morning.

Such events are put forward directly for the purpose of wear and tear. I am talking about purification in the video. I said it before, I said it many times. The party needs to be purified from pollution, period. I am saying the same thing today. This party does not accept pollution.

In history, we were called communists, fascists, an irreligious party. However, at no time, in no period, was any word said against the moral superiority of the party. The fundamental feature of the party is that its moral culture is high. When someone from the CHP speaks, everyone listens carefully, because they know that this person has moral superiority. All criticisms based on morality should be taken into account. The party never accepts pollution.

IF KILIÇDAROĞLU HAD NOT ACCEPTED THE COURT'S NULLITY RULING...

The governorship would have appointed a district governor as a trustee here. Would you want this? Moreover, in the absolute nullity ruling, it is not just me coming. The old administration is coming back as it is. Why are they afraid of me? On what grounds are they afraid? Because they are afraid that I will carry out the purification.

Every kind of criticism is made in this party. There is a serious objection in the culture of this party. People make their objections, but there has never been room for dirty relationships in this party. This party has not harbored those involved in dirty relationships in its bosom either.

If a trustee is appointed to the party, I will object to it. However, if an absolute nullity ruling is given, I am obliged to go because all the party administrators, the party assembly, will also come into office. I am given a task, but they are also given a task.

They say, 'Take the party, hold a congress that no one can claim is suspicious.' The matter is that simple."

KILIÇDAROĞLU'S RESPONSE TO EKREM İMAMOĞLU'S TRUSTEE CRITICISM

Did you read İmamoğlu's words and his statements in the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) case?

"I know the psychological state Mr. Ekrem is in. I have no intention of answering him. The concept of purification is important. The concept of cleanliness is important. I am the person who criticizes Erdoğan the most and most harshly among political parties and their chairmen.

I am also the person who was convicted on this issue. I am the person who was sentenced to pay compensation. I am criticizing him today as well. You are going to ask me, right? Who brought the country to this state? Isn't it Erdoğan who brought the 'gang of five' upon this nation?"

ABOUT THE İBB INDICTMENT...

"I am not a lawyer, I cannot say that I have read the entire İBB indictment. However, we have established a commission with lawyer friends and they are examining it. They also bring me a summary. I don't have a situation like reading all the indictments."

"Let me express my thought about İmamoğlu. I visited his house when he was arrested. I made a press statement in front of his door. Whatever I said that day, I am saying the same thing today."

Upon these words, Barış Terkoğlu reminded Kılıçdaroğlu of his words from that period: "We are going through a process in the one-man era where one person comes and controls the legislature, the judiciary, and the executive. Protecting Mr. Ekrem and his family is our common duty."

Stating that he stands behind these words, Kılıçdaroğlu continued:

"As if there is corruption only in CHP municipalities. Aren't there those who take the goods on the other side too? Everyone knows. Whoever commits corruption, we are against them. There is no party of corruption. We say that applying double standards in corruption is wrong. I still say that mayors should be tried without arrest. It should be investigated to the end, but mayors should be tried without arrest until the decisions are finalized."

KILIÇDAROĞLU'S STATEMENT REGARDING MAYORS ON TRIAL

"If a mayor has not really done anything wrong, has not done anything for his own benefit, he has a place on my head.

If he has done something for his own benefit, he has no place in this party. If they ask us for lawyers, if they ask for experts, we send them immediately. I have no worries. As I said, Yılmaz Büyükerşen was also tried. They can ask. The İzmir Metropolitan Municipality asked for an expert, and we sent a retired Court of Accounts auditor there. In the end, he was acquitted. He didn't let them do anything wrong."

THE CHP CASE IS NOT A POLITICAL CASE

"I do not believe that the judiciary is independent.

Is the fact that Can Atalay, Selahattin Demirtaş, and Osman Kavala are in prison due to judicial independence? Those are political cases, but the CHP case is not a political case. There are huge differences between the two.

One needs to look at the prosecutor's indictment. What is in it? There are confessors. The man says 'I gave' and who are the confessors? The men they do business with. How much did you give, he says, and explains.

The incident comes out, he confesses, a bank transfer comes. In the incident at the Seferihisar Municipality, all money transfers were identified. What are we going to call this? Are we going to call it political? If a mayor is arrested because of a political statement, we would raise hell, of course. You are the ones who guide public opinion. Not me.

I am the one who talks the least about these issues. I am also the one who makes the least comments. You are journalists, right? You will follow up. I gave an example just now. It is said that I gave a bribe, but no case is filed. Won't you say to him, 'Why don't you file a case?'

If I told you, 'You did this and that,' wouldn't you file a lawsuit against me? Wouldn't you say this is a lie? The prosecution is the accusing authority. What the prosecutor says does not turn into a decision. I wish they were all acquitted, we all want this.

If you don't file a case, it means you accept these accusations."

KILIÇDAROĞLU ALSO TOUCHED UPON THE ISSUE OF DIPLOMA CANCELLATION

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, who said he found the decision wrong;

"I say it again, I find the cancellation of Ekrem İmamoğlu's diploma wrong.

The judiciary under the control of the AKP is only conducting operations on CHP municipalities to secure the job. I said it just now. My claim, my claim regarding purification, is to separate those who enter into dirty relationships from the party," he said.

'I AM NOT A PARTY TO IT' COMMENT ON THE SUMMARY OF PROCEEDINGS AGAINST ALİ MAHİR BAŞARIR

Regarding the summary of proceedings prepared for Ali Mahir Başarır regarding the congress, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said;

"I am not a party to the case. I have nothing to do with the case. It is alleged that there was corruption in the congress, and a court decision was issued. How am I supposed to know who gave money and where?

Those who gave statements about this are 'changeist' people. They are the ones who say it, they are the ones who go around, they are the ones who give the money. The judge also says, 'If this congress is bought with money, I am canceling it.' This is the reason why he invites me and the party assembly to duty."

Regarding the question of what his reaction would be if the summary of proceedings against Özgür Özel came to Parliament, Kılıçdaroğlu said:

"Personally, if there were such an allegation about me, I would want my immunity to be lifted."

Upon these words, Barış Terkoğlu reminded him, "But when you did this for the last time, Selahattin Demirtaş was arrested. Do you regret it?"

Kılıçdaroğlu gave the following response:

"No. Your own party has made a provision regarding the lifting of immunity at the congress. You cannot oppose this. Was it wrong that Selahattin Bey was arrested? I said this everywhere. You may or may not agree with his political thoughts, but I have always opposed a person being arrested because of their thoughts.

I don't have immunity."

ON THE POLICE INTERVENTION AT CHP HEADQUARTERS: MY CONSCIENCE HURT

Did the police intervention at the CHP Headquarters and the images that emerged hurt Kılıçdaroğlu's conscience?

"It hurt. Wouldn't it hurt a chairman's conscience? If they had taken the CHP deputies, this would not have been necessary. Who did not let the deputies into the CHP Headquarters? What power did not let the CHP deputies into the CHP Headquarters?

I have never defended the police entering the Headquarters. I didn't want this either. This is the lawyer's letter.

UPON THE READING OF THE PETITION GIVEN TO THE ANKARA GOVERNORSHIP, KILIÇDAROĞLU:

"Does this letter say let the police come? The enforcement officer needs to go in there. I never find it right for the police to enter and use violence. I don't find it right for stones to be thrown out from the Headquarters.

What is Adnan Beker doing there? He came there with his bus. Also, this man is a man who announced that he did not vote for me in the May 14-28, 2023 elections. What is this man doing in the CHP? I also said what those inside the building turned the CHP Headquarters into. There are a lot of videos. It is full of people who have nothing to do with the party.

Bolu Mayor Tanju Özcan climbed on top of the bus in front of the CHP Headquarters and threw a chair, but I told my friends to invite him inside, let's offer him tea and coffee. I invited the person who criticized me the most harshly to the CHP Headquarters. I said that I did not find the images on May 24 and the police intervention right, and I am saying it anyway.

Why are you preparing the ground for the police to enter by force? On what grounds are you creating this environment? Hey, you are not letting the deputies in. You are doing everything for the police to enter by force."

'GRAY WOLF SALUTE' IMAGES AT HEADQUARTERS

Regarding those who gave the 'gray wolf' salute on the 12th floor of the Headquarters and some names at the CHP Headquarters posing for photos with Haluk Kırcı, Kılıçdaroğlu said:

"These names were already MHP members in the past, then they came and became CHP members. If an MHP member wants to come and join the CHP, are you going to say 'no, don't come'?

I objected to Adnan Beker when he said 'I didn't vote in the elections.' These are not right. The doors of the CHP Headquarters can never be closed. The doors of the CHP Headquarters are open 24 hours a day. Whoever comes to criticize us from the public, we open the doors. It has never closed in its history."

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE FROM A TRUSTEE?

Kılıçdaroğlu answered the question, 'what is your difference from a trustee?'

"Let's say I didn't accept the absolute nullity. Would you accept a district governor being appointed as a trustee here? Would you accept someone else being appointed to the party? Why are you afraid of me?

There are two things. A trustee is something else. When it was being discussed in the lower court, I said that if they write me as a trustee, I will not accept it. But if 'absolute nullity' comes out, not only me, but the entire old party assembly will come, and we will hold a congress again. Then I would accept it. Because the court says, 'this congress is suspicious.'

Who used the word 'suspicious' first? Erdoğan said it, then Bahçeli said it. I also recorded a video and said, 'Actually, your congresses are suspicious,' I replied. Then I said in a television program, 'Friends, come out and say, 'There is no suspicion in this congress. This congress is squeaky clean,' why didn't you say it?' I recorded a video at my home and said these things. Now you are telling me, 'Why did you accept the trustee?'

For example, if a trustee came, could he have made expulsion decisions for CHP members? Could he have fired 60 people?

A trustee could have done these, of course. A trustee came to the Şişli Municipality, you saw what they did. When we make a decision, there is a normal party organ. The Party Assembly is the same, the High Disciplinary Board is the same.

Look, the decision taken in the MYK was overturned by the High Disciplinary Board. No, this cannot be, they said, and we cannot confess to it. It is presented to the citizen as a trustee, but there is no such thing. The party is what it was before, all its organs are in place. There is no trustee situation."

KILIÇDAROĞLU'S REACTION TO BÜLENT TEZCAN

Regarding CHP Aydın Deputy Bülent Tezcan's statement that if Kılıçdaroğlu refuses to go to the congress, they will apply to the court and request a 'call committee', Kılıçdaroğlu said:

"They voiced this so that a trustee would be appointed to the party. And a CHP deputy is the one saying this. There is a mental blackout, there is really a mental blackout. Do you know why? They are afraid of purification. I will purify the dirty ones.

I promised this nation. I will protect the moral superiority of this party. Those who get involved in money matters have no place in this party. I am saying this very clearly and plainly. We write the reasons for those whose duties are terminated as they are. We also say why we did this. Finally, we referred those whose names were mentioned regarding absolute nullity to the High Disciplinary Board.

Get cleared and come back. You have a place on our head."

DOES GÜRLEK HAVE AN INFLUENCE ON THE 'NULLITY' DECISION?

To journalist Terkoğlu's question regarding Akın Gürlek; We don't recognize him today, of course. I am reading your statements, "Akın Gürlek is our new Zekeriya Öz. If you are asking who the man who murdered justice is, it is Akın Gürlek. You said to Akın Gürlek, 'Just give me a wink, I will do what is necessary.' A few minutes after the nullity decision, Akın Gürlek came out and made a statement claiming the decision. You say that Gürlek directs court decisions. Has Akın Gürlek influenced the nullity decision with Erdoğan's wink?" Kılıçdaroğlu replied;

"I have no contact with him. I have nothing to do with this case. I am not the one who filed the case, I am not a witness, I am not, that is.

In the nullity decision, the event is political, but the decision is different. That is, it is not because of an idea. There is a money movement in the middle. This is related to a political party, but the event is a judicial event. How would I know if the decision was taken with the government's intervention in the judiciary? A lower court made a decision, and did I object to it?

My personal opinion is that if Erdoğan had intervened, he would have intervened in the local court more easily. After all, one judge makes the decision. If we say that all judges 'act with Erdoğan's decision,' we would be doing a great injustice. Some judges have honor. They look and make the decision accordingly.

This absolute nullity decision is not an ordinary decision. It will enter all textbooks because it was a first in our history that a political party's general assembly was deemed null and void with 'absolute nullity.'

How will this continue, how will the Supreme Court decide, we don't know that either. We will see what they do and what they don't do," he said.

WHO ASKED YOU TO PURIFY THE PARTY?

"There are no such things in the history of the CHP. The one who asked this of me is the history of the CHP.

There have been such mayors, there have been deputies, but the moral superiority of the CHP is indisputable. This is my duty.

We have to return the party to the moral codes of its foundation. If I don't do this, I would have betrayed the party. How am I going to protect a person who gets involved in money matters? How am I going to protect a person who gets involved in money matters and buys delegates?"

KILIÇDAROĞLU'S 'WE WILL NOT EXPEL THE CONFESSORS' OUTBURST

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu responded to the issue of Ahmet Hakan Uyanık, the son of the confessor Veysi Uyanık, being in his A-team, which drew reactions when it came to the agenda.

"Do you know Ahmet Hakan Uyanık? He is currently in the military. Do you know his education? He has an extraordinary education. Why are you judging a child because of his father? If he were 5 or 10 years old, okay. But he is going to the military now and he is a party assembly member.

He has been a party assembly member for years. He comes with a court decision. Children are not judged because of their fathers. If your brother did something immoral, I cannot criticize you. Why should I blame the child because of his father?

This child is someone who has received a very good education, someone who knows several languages, someone who has received the best education. We need to train politicians. I have never talked to him about this issue. I will not make a child an enemy of his father, or a father an enemy of his child. He is a person who tells the truth. How can you put a person who tells the truth in the same category? I do not put the person who takes money and the person who gives money in the same category. If he is taking money and using his vote, that is not right.

However, if he sees that money is being taken and is testifying to it, of course, it is not right to expel him from the party.

Of course, we will not expel the confessors who only witnessed the money traffic."

WHY DOES THE VOTER NOT BELIEVE KILIÇDAROĞLU?

"It is about television channels broadcasting one-sidedly, of course.

There is a television channel. It doesn't say any of the things we say. Our base also goes and watches that. They accept what comes out of there as true."

KILIÇDAROĞLU ANSWERED THE QUESTION ABOUT WHY THE ABSOLUTE NULLITY ADMINISTRATION COULD NOT MAKE A CONGRESS DECISION

"Let the lawyers sit down and criticize this. Let me say this, I will definitely take the party to a congress as soon as possible. Petitions came, right? We received them, they asked, we hosted them. They said they would make a statement, and we put the podium in front of them. We are doing these without allowing any tension.

The court has a 'precautionary' decision. It is said that we cannot do it because there is a Supreme Court process. Look, I am not a lawyer. But of course, the party will work during this process. There is no such thing as we will not do anything until the precautionary decision is lifted.

Those who make the objection are Mr. Özgür. We talk to the other side, if necessary, both sides give up on the Supreme Court application. This can be discussed."

HE GAVE A DATE FOR THE CONGRESS

"Not an extraordinary congress. An ordinary congress will be held.

If the application to the Supreme Court is withdrawn, we will hold the ordinary congress in 4-5 months at the latest. After all, the ordinary congress has provincial chairman elections, delegate elections. We cannot do it with the old delegates, sir. The court canceled it because there is suspicion, and you are saying go and hold a congress with those delegates.

An absolute nullity decision would come out of this too. Would the party get this tired? Don't you trust the delegate? You start the elections from the neighborhood, you come and hold the congress, the matter is that simple."

STATEMENT FROM KILIÇDAROĞLU, WHO IMPLIED 'FETÖ' ABOUT ÖZGÜR ÖZEL

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu had implied FETÖ about Özgür Özel and his team. Journalist Terkoğlu asked Kılıçdaroğlu a question by making old-dated reminders.

Terkoğlu: "You used an expression that is highly debated in public opinion. You made a FETÖ accusation. Even if you didn't name names, you targeted names within the party. I want to say this. During your term, your advisor Fatih Gürsu was convicted of FETÖ. Aykan Erdemir, whom you made a deputy, is currently a FETÖ fugitive. You made Muhammet Çakmak, who said 'Fethullah Gülen is a wise man,' a member of the Party Assembly. You visited Zaman Newspaper. When FETÖ was at its most popular, you called Zekeriya Öz 'an honorable journalist.' On the night of July 15, your sitting in a house in Bakırköy and Özel's going to Parliament became an agenda. Despite all this, isn't it a shame to make a 'FETÖ' accusation against your old comrades-in-arms with the language the government used against you?

"Now, why did I say this? You gave correct information. In that period, FETÖ had newspapers, it had television channels. Mr. Ekrem was also presenting sports programs there. We never made such an accusation.

Mr. Özgür made such a statement, referring to the MIT undersecretary, 'We are receiving many applications from CHP's overseas offices. We requested intelligence support from MIT so that FETÖ or terrorist organizations would not infiltrate the CHP during member recruitment.' I drew attention to this. What's wrong with that?

They asked for support from MIT so that FETÖ members would not enter. I am also saying, who are these people? Some names I didn't know in the past turned out to be FETÖ members. Of course, I meant these names. In a very humane way.

No political party can get a report from MIT about its members. Such a thing is not requested."

HE ANSWERED THE QUESTION ABOUT İMAMOĞLU BEING A CHP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE

"Why are we discussing our presidential candidate?

I don't accept this regime. I don't accept this system, I don't accept the one-man system. We want to change the Constitution.

Our authorized bodies determine our candidate. This is not the AKP, nor is it the MHP. There is a serious culture of objection in the CHP. Everyone says their thoughts, and the chairman listens to those who object to the end. 16.5 million people signed, I respect that.

The time comes, and if the Constitution does not change, if we necessarily need to determine a presidential candidate, we will look, of course. I don't know if İmamoğlu is a candidate.

Müslim Sarı said that if there is no problem, if there is no obstacle in front of his candidacy from the court, of course, everyone can be a candidate. There are many candidates, it can be."

WILL HE BE PART OF THE AKP'S CONSTITUTIONAL INITIATIVE?

"We have views on constitutional amendment. It has been accepted by the party's authorized bodies. Our goal is to bring the Strengthened Parliamentary System. This is not a parliament. Deputies cannot even make decisions. A parliament whose will has dropped to zero.

What am I going to do with this parliament? They are paying salaries to 600 deputies for nothing. As long as the parliament is not strengthened, there will be no democracy. If they come and say Strengthened Parliamentary System in the constitutional amendment, if they really make the parliament a parliament, we will say yes to it. If they don't intervene in their will from above, we will say yes to it.

Let me repeat what I said just now. Strengthened Parliamentary System... 6 parties accepted it. We held a meeting and every party accepted it. We are defending this."

'EARLY ELECTION' PROPOSAL...

"If Erdoğan comes and wants to be a presidential candidate and wants a constitutional amendment for this, we will come and say, 'Why are we changing this Constitution, on what grounds?' we will say.

There are many studies done on the Constitution in our party's archive. We explained these with the Strengthened Parliamentary System at the six-party table, and we still stand behind it."

CAN KILIÇDAROĞLU GO OUT TO THE STREET?

Responding to the criticisms that 'Kılıçdaroğlu cannot go out to the street right now, he cannot visit tradesmen, markets' due to the reactions of CHP voters, Kılıçdaroğlu said:

"Why wouldn't I be able to go out to the street? You will see soon, don't worry at all. I will give the day and the hour. I will already tell the journalists, don't worry at all.

Did we kill someone, did we cut someone? Why wouldn't I be able to go out to the street? Will the man who defends morality and goes after corruption not be able to go out to the street?

What will the citizen say to me, 'You went after corruption, that's why you can't go out to the street'? We will restore the party to the moral values of its foundation. After that, you will see, we will go everywhere with a party whose structure has been corrected and is serious. We will change the party's charter. We will make the primary election mandatory."

WILL HE BE A CANDIDATE FOR CHP CHAIRMANSHIP?

Answering the question of whether he will be a candidate for CHP Chairmanship at the next congress, Kılıçdaroğlu said:

"I have never gone anywhere and said I am a candidate until now. Look at nowhere. Let me give you an example. They made me a candidate everywhere I have served until today, I have never been a candidate.

Candidacy does not happen with one person's will. If they support you, if they nominate you, you become a candidate. I am not going to be a candidate on my own. Let me tell you my sincere thought. After purifying the party, I want to sit down, I want to rest. I want to live. I want to live in peace with my wife and children.

You are asking questions freely to a 78-year-old person. Erdoğan wouldn't even let these questions be asked, but you are saying to me, 'Is Erdoğan supporting you?'

Is this question asked? What public opinion is talking about these? The public opinion created by trolls? You read Emin Çölaşan's article just now. When did Emin Çölaşan talk to me? On what grounds is he writing these?"

WHY DOES HE NOT USE THE EXPRESSION 'CHAIRMAN'?

'There is a court decision, what is done in the media, what is said, what is shared on social media. My wife is being threatened. Can there be this much immorality? What do you want from my wife? We are filing lawsuits against trolls, and we see that they appear in Uzbekistan, Albania.

Someone somehow appeared in Samsun, and the police found and brought them, they are in prison now. Trolls press the button and 1000 troll accounts appear. When the citizen reads these, they say, 'what is this, why did so much criticism come?'

Why are they afraid of me? My family is clear, my moral structure is clear, my commitment to the party is clear. From the very beginning, since I entered politics, I have fought against corruption and injustices. They say let it be anyone but Kılıçdaroğlu. Why? Did I hang or cut someone? Did I flick an honest person? Did I expel a person who freely expressed their thoughts from the party?

I am calling out to all my party members. I do not alienate anyone as long as they do not insult. Because we have to protect the criticism culture of this party. If it is not criticized, if they don't tell me my shortcomings, the party ceases to be a party. I don't look at any deputy differently. As long as they all work in parliament."

IS KILIÇDAROĞLU AN AKP PROJECT?

Kılıçdaroğlu responded to the criticisms of CHP MPs that "It is Erdoğan's project":

"It is said that 13 elections were lost. It's a complete lie. Let them count the 13 elections. Someone says something, everyone believes it. Where have I lost 13 elections? Are you counting referendums as elections? Who can accuse me of being Erdoğan's project? Is there anyone who criticizes Erdoğan as much as I do?

Who took Ankara? Who took Istanbul? Who took Mersin, Adana? For the first time, the AKP could not form a government alone... The AKP did not become a government alone on June 7, 2015...

I said to Mr. Bahçeli, come be the prime minister, I will support you. He did not accept it. Our vote rate increased in every election. I am not saying we achieved extraordinary successes in every election. But we increased our votes in every election.

We also got the vote that prevented the AKP from forming a government alone for the first time in its history. If those bombs hadn't exploded, if hundreds of people hadn't died, another picture would have emerged, we know this too.

We took all the metropolises, what else should we take? Also, we took the places we gave to the İYİ Party in the subsequent elections."

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