Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of the mutlan butlan administration in CHP, visited Mersin Metropolitan Municipality after the President of the Union of Municipalities of Türkiye and Mersin Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Vahap Seçer and the two mayors were detained.
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu later made a speech in front of the town hall. Stating that the duty of mayors is to serve the public and that they must be accountable to the public when the time comes, Kılıçdaroğlu said, "Vahap Seçer has provided all kinds of services to Mersin and the people of Mersin since the day he was elected. He has also made sacrifices. There is no concept of hours for our mayors. Our mayors are on duty 24 hours a day and our mayors consider it an honorable duty to be accountable to the public."
"DID HE NOT COME WHEN YOU SAID?"
Kılıçdaroğlu continued his words as follows:
"The law does not change from person to person. It does not change from one government to another. Justice applies to everyone. The house of a mayor or metropolitan mayor is not raided and searched at five o'clock in the morning. It is not right. Didn't our metropolitan mayor go when you invited him? Didn't he come when you told him to? No. Our mayors go when they are invited. If they are going to testify, they give it. If they are going to be held accountable, they give it. No one escapes being held accountable. Therefore, detaining our mayors at five in the morning is incompatible with democracy. That's why we call it rights, law and justice.
President Vahap should set out to serve Mersin, a city of 2 million people. The duty of a mayor is to serve Mersin. It serves. If you arrest a metropolitan mayor, it means you have arrested two million people of Mersin. That's why our president's statement will be taken, thank you. But he must be released immediately, start his duty and serve Mersin. Our duty is to be accountable everywhere, in every environment. We are accountable to our people, thank you. If there is a complaint, we will evaluate it, thank you. But we never accept a structure or a mentality that uses the law as a political tool, portrays the right as wrong, and whose house is raided at five in the morning. You invite him, he goes. You ask him for an account, he gives an account. But when you punish the president, you punish two million people of Mersin. "I came here to defend the rights and laws of 2 million Mersin residents."
"IF FERİŞTAHI COMES, THEY CANNOT DISRUPT OUR POWER"
Stating that CHP is a party whose motto is to serve the public, Kılıçdaroğlu said, "We are a party that accounts for every penny to the nation. We are not like the AK Party. We are not like other parties. We are not like other parties. We are a party founded by Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and his friends. We are a national party. We are a realistic party. We are a party that is accountable to the public. We are a party that accounts for every penny when it comes. We are an ordinary party." That's why the Republican People's Party is a party with the strongest moral foundations. If the political will and authority want to silence us, they can never disrupt our power. We get our power from the innocent. We get our power from the sweat of our people. We do not get our power from the judiciary.
Reminding the fund heist, Kılıçdaroğlu said, "If the main purpose of the operation is to close the fund corruption, do not worry, we will never close that book, never. We will not close that book. If you are asking for an account, ask them. What will you hold the working people, the people who put in their hard work, to account? We do not hesitate to hold them accountable. We will give an account. To whom do we give an account? We will give an account to the nation. We will give an account to the people. If you are going to hold an account, you will ask your own supporters. You will ask your own men." "You will ask your own mayors. In other words, if you are going to hold them accountable, as the people say, you will hold accountable those who took the goods," he said.
