32 MPs in YENİ Party announce they will vote 'no' following Özgür Özel's 'free vote' statement

The stance regarding the upcoming vote in the YENİ Party has begun to clarify.

Following party leader Özgür Özel's announcement that he and the MPs serving in the party administration would vote "yes," but that other MPs were free to make their own decisions based on the demands from their constituencies, a large number of deputies declared they would vote "no."

The number of MPs who have made such a statement has reached 32. The names of those who announced they will vote "no" are as follows:

• - İzzet Akbulut
• - Hasan Öztürk
• - Sibel Suiçmez
• - Cemal Enginyurt
• - Süreyya Öneş Derici
• - Deniz Yavuzyılmaz
• - İbrahim Aslan
• - Hikmet Yalım Halıcı
• - Cumhur Uzun
• - Eylem Ertuğ Eryılmaz
• - Murat Çan
• - Servet Mullaoğlu
• - Salih Uzun
• - Uğur Bayraktutan
• - Şeref Arpacı
• - Murat Bakan
• - Seyit Torun
• - Mahmut Tanal
• - Fethi Açıkel
• - Elvan Işık Gezmiş
• - Melih Meriç
• - İsmail Atakan Ünver
• - Mehmet Tahtasız
• - Ümit Özlale
• - Mustafa Erdem
• - Ayşe Sibel Yanıkömeroğlu
• - Reşat Karagöz
• - Ayhan Barut
• - Barış Karadeniz
• - Fahri Özkan
• - Deniz Yücel
• - Seda Kaya Ösen

It had been stated that following Özel's announcement, the MPs would determine their stance by taking into account regional demands and feedback from voters.

In this context, the list of deputies who announced they would vote "no" also made the different tendencies within the party visible.

News Source: 12punto