Cemil Tugay reaction from SDD: SDD rejects renegade!

Reactions to Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Cemil Tugay's switch to AKP continue. The Social Democracy Association (SDD), from which Tugay resigned last week, published a statement under the title "Social democratic thought is always a clean field."

The statement started by saying, "Those who have to remain in power in order not to lose the wide and unlawful privileged area they have created for themselves have condemned our country to a period of political turmoil that will remain as a black stain in history," and continued, "Such difficult periods that every country can experience in the history of democracy also reveal power lovers who tend to side with power in line with their own personal ambitions, instead of showing the determination to fight with collective consciousness. Social democratic thought: Any form of collaboration that is contrary to the founding philosophy of the country, the values of the Republic, the rule of law and human rights." and rejects renegade. In this respect, political fraudsters who try to define themselves as Social Democrats and impose this identity on the society can never find a place for themselves under this roof.”

“İZMİR WILL NOT FORGIVE”

Underlining that Izmir is the bastion of social democracy, the statement said, "Izmir will never forget or forgive all these collaborators and power worshipers who gave up first on Social Democratism and then on Kemalism... Social democracy is a pure area that embraces all individuals with a libertarian, egalitarian, sharing and solidarity philosophy for social welfare, development and enlightenment, and will always remain so."