Master: "I'm not going anywhere"

İYİ Party member Erhan Usta, regarding the image of İYİ Party Chairman Müsavat Dervişoğlu with MHP Chairman Devlet Bahçeli in Anıtkabir, said, "Entering that branch is not a physical obligation, but a political choice. I object to this choice. The best way to evaluate the appropriateness of our behavior is the reaction of our nation. I am in my party. I am not going anywhere."

İYİ Party Deputy Chairman Erhan Usta shared the image he gave with İYİ Party Chairman Müsavat Dervişoğlu and MHP Chairman Devlet Bahçeli during the 29 October Republic Day Ceremony in Anıtkabir last night and said, "I do not accept it."

In his statement today, İYİ Party Chairman Müsavat Dervişoğlu said that he called Usta but his phone was turned off. Erhan Usta made the following statement regarding the events on his social media account:

"OUR STRUGGLE WILL CONTINUE FROM NOW ON"

"My words do not need interpretation. To date, as the İYİ Party, we have struggled wholeheartedly on every platform and at every level, both on social and economic issues, and most recently during the Framework Law process. This struggle will continue from now on. I say this as someone who has attended the ceremony in Anıtkabir many times.

If you want to see someone there, you will, if you don't want to see someone, you won't. If you want to walk with someone, you walk, if you don't want to, you don't. It takes a very special effort to be with someone constantly throughout the ceremony. There is no order, especially when going down the stairs. Entering that branch is not a physical necessity, but a political choice. I object to this choice.

"I'M AT MY PARTY, I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE"

Let it be well known that we do not take our duty from calculations of success behind closed doors, we take our duty from the great Atatürk's address to the youth. As our first duty, we will preserve and defend Turkish independence and the Turkish Republic forever. The responsibility of politics applies to everyone.

The best way to evaluate the appropriateness of our behavior is by the reaction of our nation. I'm at my party. I'm not going anywhere. I worked hard. I took a risk. From now on, I will continue to walk on the path that I know is right. "We will continue to work determinedly on the path we believe in, without deviating even an inch from our promise to our nation."