NEW Party Chairman Özgür Özel met with citizens during his visit to Kemalpaşa district of Artvin.
Speaking here, NEW Party leader Özel had "fund profiteering" on his agenda.
Addressing AKP's President Erdoğan regarding the "fund crisis" on Türkiye's agenda, Özel said:
"You slandered us a lot, you couldn't find 2 pennies, we proved 2 billion liras to your minister. They are doing a world of operations. While our friends don't get money that they can't account for, it's flowing everywhere from them."
Özel said:
"Dear Kemalpaşa residents, dear members of the NEW Party, Turkey's new party, the Black Sea's new party, Artvin's new party and Kemalpaşa's new party, those who volunteered, my dear elders, sisters, brothers, I greet you all with my most heartfelt feelings. Welcome.
This rain allowed, you have been inviting for a long time and here we embraced with such great enthusiasm. In fact, this Kemalpaşa visit shows what kind of journey the NEW Party is on. Our Mayor Erhan just greeted us. He was elected with great support in the last elections, and he serves Kemalpaşa with great love. Comrade President summarized the journey we have gone through, the path we have walked with you. In front of me is Turkey's Sarp Border Gate, 4 kilometers away. Hundreds of our party members welcomed us; Here, everyone has the party badge on their collar and the love of Mustafa Kemal Pasha in their hearts. No, we shouldn't, we didn't send a penny of money here. The shiny new district headquarters building of the party. Look, politicians normally have expensive pen collections. I was coming from here and he said, 'This pen is a gift from me to the party.' Look, look at the pen he gave me. This is the power of the NEW Party.
Politicians have pens and collections worth 10 thousand to 50 thousand dollars with such signs and brands. This is the pen given to the NEW Party as the 'Pen of the Party', our power lies in this pen. In this ballpoint pen. Do you know where our strength is? There is Brother Adem here, right? Someone fell and fainted under the sun at the Rize rally. It was Adem Brother who fainted and was taken to the hospital. I called Adem Ağabey and said, 'Hopefully, I will come to Kemalpaşa and visit you.' He got up and came to the rally. Look here now, Brother Adem; Do you know what Adem Brother said to me at that rally? He couldn't hold me with one arm, he held me with the other arm and said, 'I'll be behind you until I die.' What more can I say?"
"So let them do whatever evil they want, let them do whatever despicable thing they want... Just this morning... They had taken our bright son, our Ataşehir Mayor Onursal, in Istanbul. We were ahead by 12 margins. They pulled six municipal council members to their side with pressure, blackmail and money last week. They made equality, as if they were equal. They put pressure on our Deputy Mayor, saying 'Resign, resign'. He made a statement yesterday, saying 'I will not surrender'. This morning they took him away. They took it from his house so that they will take Ataşehir, which the nation did not give, they will take Istanbul, which the nation did not give, and Tayyip Erdoğan will win.
From here I say to Tayyip Erdoğan Erdoğan. Look, you will surrender to this wretched pen of the NEW Party, and these tears of my brother Adem, and you will drown in these tears. He says 'Everything will be renewed', first this government will be renewed in this country, then everything will be renewed. Today we are in Artvin. There is no doubt that Artvin is the one that protects the Republic, democracy and freedoms the most; It is one of the provinces that most support Atatürk and his revolutions. This is also a border town. Once a village, it became a town, and once a town, it became a district. But as a district that represents the Republic, Ataturk, Ataturk's name on our border with its name, and maintains all the values that make us who we are, especially the law of brotherhood and the Republic, I would like to thank each and every one of you. I'm proud of each of you too.
It was the same at the rally yesterday, especially in Artvin, and it is the same here today. If a man catches my eye, a woman is also here. Equality between men and women exists in the streets, squares and struggles in Artvin and Kemalpaşa. That's why the NEW Party is of course the new hope of retirees, laborers, tradesmen, farmers, fishermen and beekeepers. But most of all, the NEW Party is the hope of our youth and the hope of our women. The AK Party always puts it in the background: 'Sit at home, have children. Sit at home, take care of the children. He appoints 19 Ministers who exclude him from social life by saying 'Stay at home, take care of your patients and disabled people'; 18 of them are men, one is a woman and she is responsible for the family.
In other words, the one who says 'Your job is the home, the family, the children'... Of course, the Minister of Family will be a woman, but Artvin, which is half women, is calling out to the whole of Turkey, to spite those who say 'You don't understand foreign affairs, you don't understand internal affairs, you don't understand national education, you don't understand culture, you don't understand forests and public affairs' and keep women out of politics, government and social life. NEW Party is especially the party of women. Therefore, no one should despair.
No one should think that these economic difficulties and poverty are permanent. They somehow openly gave away the assets of this country to their supporters; With tenders and unfair interviews, they deemed the job and the vaccine worthy of their supporters. But like a man-eating microbe that eats and eats and never gets enough, finally, when we had nothing left to eat, they turned back to rip off their own voters, their own members who voted for them, and said, "Trust this, the Ministers are here, we are all here," and loaded the money into the fund, and multiplied their own money.
They put in money for 27 flats, took out 367 flats and ran away. But they took those 367 flats they stole from the tiny accounts of those who voted for them and ran away. Ministers and managers of this party, the Justice and Development Party, are involved in this business. His list is ahead of Tayyip Erdoğan. The man who campaigned as 'Türkiye Century' in the last election was caught red-handed. Member of Parliament for two terms. Exit bans have been imposed to prevent people from escaping abroad.
But everyone should know that… Now they have opened an account number, an account number. They say, 'If you earned money from the fund and hit these poor people, put this money into this account yourself. Let's get this over with. Don't be heard either, don't let it be heard that you are from the AK Party.' Hey Erdoğan; Until the thief is caught, the money belongs to the thief, and when he is caught, he says, 'Put it here secretly, I won't tell you about it and people won't hear it. Let the nation not hear that you are from us.' I swear to God, let them hear it. You slandered us all over the world, but you couldn't find a penny. We have proven 2 billion liras to your Minister.
They operate all over the world. While our friends do not leave their homes or anywhere else, not even a single penny or money for which they cannot be accounted for; It flows from all sides. When shoeboxes and money were found in the houses and rooms of his ministers on December 17 - 25, he first said 'FETO members put it there' and then gave the money back to the ministers and their children with interest. The man who found money in clothes bags went abroad and was made an ambassador to represent Turkey. All AK Party members know that no tender can be awarded without giving their share, and nothing can be owned without giving them their share.
The person knows his job. They attacked our Presidential candidate and innocent mayors with all kinds of slander. We did not surrender to this. Unless we surrender; They stepped up, attacked our party, took our party from us. They always tried to bring back those they had defeated, defeat them in the first election, postpone them, and push us out of politics. But they were wrong somewhere. They couldn't take Uncle Adem into account. They could not take Kemalpaşa into account. They couldn't take Artvin into account. I am calling out from here in front of all of Turkey. Despite so much injustice, so much lawlessness, so much unscrupulousness, we have not surrendered and will not surrender.
Never, ever, if one of us falls, the other one will continue from where he fell. We will continue to fight until we change this government, become the hope of the poor, the poor, the left behind in this country, in fact the real owners of this country, and establish their power. Erdoğan is behind you, next to you, at your command; It could be judges, prosecutors, armies, police. Kemalpaşa is behind me. You think about the rest. I love you all very much. I thank all of you for your support for our struggle, for your existence, for your effort, for your strength, for your heart. I'm glad to have you, Kemalpaşa."
