Message from CHP's Çelik, who spent New Year's in Silivri: Just meters away from our comrades

The New Year near the Marmara Prison located in Silivri, those the watch they held by Özgür ÇelikThe CHP members who welcomed the new year with a vigil made statements from the site .Hedeliveredimportant messagesin his statements.

CHP IstanbulProvincial Chair Provincial Chairman Özgür Çelik, regarding thevigil theyheld, statedtregarding the vigil hemadethefollowingstatement he :

"We are leaving behind a difficult year.

In front of Silivri Prison, just meters away from our comrades behind these walls, we are entering the new year together with our friends, with a sense of friendship and solidarity that warms this cold night.

We have spent a year that will go down in history,a year that we will teach in future textbooksas something that should 'never happen again'.We have passed through it.

We lived through a yearwhere our people did not reconcile with the oppressive, dark government.

May 2025 be a yearwithout extravagance.passed with the struggle of workers and retireeswho were condemned to hunger and povertyby a handful of oligarchs.2025 passed with the struggle

between those who trample on the lawand those who defend justice.2025

was a year of struggle.against unjust captivity for freedom,for justice against injustice,for the future against an exhaustedgovernment,it was spent with the struggle of the birth painsof the future.

Thepast year was marked by the courage that stood up to thousand-room palaces from 12-square-meter dungeons.

Our presidential candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu, our mayors, our partyexecutives, our municipal bureaucrats,journalists, students, unionists, artistsandrepresentatives of the businessworldand many others have faced the wrath of tyrants in police stations, courthouses, and prisons.

However, we did not remain silent.

Together with our people, we have expanded a historicstruggle.

We became a flood in the squares, and took to thestreets. We challenged those who are afraid tospeak out.

We resisted as those who defend their honor, their future, and their country against deathsfor which no one is held accountable, days stolenby slanders, and the oppression of every segment of society.We stood our ground as those who defend their honor, their future, and their country.

We suppressed our pain and our sorrow, and gritting our teeth, we walked the path we know with patience and determination. We walked.

Now we are stronger, more faithful, and more stubbornWe are stronger, we are more numerous.

We gave our word, and we will keep our word.

We will make 2026 the year of hope.

We will win.

Justice will prevail. The people will win.

Our Turkey will win!

May we have a happy year as a nation."

News Source: 12punto