Remarkable moments at the funeral ceremony. Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and Özgür Özel shook hands

A funeral ceremony was held in the Parliament for the deceased 20th and 21st Term Manisa Deputy Hasan Gülay.

In addition to Gülay's family and relatives, New Party Chairman Özgür Özel, CHP Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, MHP Group Deputy Chairman Erkan Akçay, former Parliament Speaker Bülent Arınç, GNAT Administrative Chief and DEM Party Bingöl Deputy Ömer Faruk Hülakü, MPs and Parliament staff attended the funeral ceremony.

Gülay's family and relatives accepted their condolences at the ceremony, where a moment of silence was observed and prayers were made after Gülay's CV was read.

New Party Chairman Özgür Özel was the first to attend the ceremony. Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, Chairman of the Republican People's Party (CHP), shook hands with Özgür Özel after offering his condolences to the family. It did not go unnoticed that Özel shook hands with Kılıçdaroğlu without looking at him at that moment.

In the case regarding the 38th Ordinary Congress won by Özgür Özel, the court ruled on absolute nullity. With this decision, the court deemed the congress invalid and reinstated the previous chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and his committees.

Immediately after the decision, CHP, under the leadership of Özel, objected to the file and took it to the Supreme Court, requesting that the decision be annulled. The Kılıçdaroğlu administration, which returned to office, dismissed the party lawyers and withdrew the objection.

Following this development, Özgür Özel started the Supreme Court process by making an application himself.

Following the appeal of the decision, the file was sent to the 3rd Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals for appeal review on Friday, July 17, before the judicial recess that started on Monday, July 20. This decision also meant that the review of the file would be held in the new judicial year.

Özel, who argued that the file came to the Supreme Court agenda late, reacted to the situation. While the process was continuing, Özel and his friends resigned from the CHP and founded the New Party.

Finally, with the decision taken on September 10, 2026, the CHP management announced that it had waived the appeal in order not to delay the regular congress process.

While the current absolute nullity administration announces a new ordinary congress calendar, legal and political processes in the party continue according to the course of the Supreme Court and the intra-party congress calendar.