IYI Party Chairman Meral Akşener and IMM President Ekrem İmamoğluAfter the unlawful decision of the Anatolian 7th Criminal Court of First Instance, he met with tens of thousands of citizens in Saraçhane. Akşener said, "There is a will in power that is very afraid of tomorrow," and added, "When people are afraid, they punish. People persecute when they are afraid. People do injustice when they are afraid. That's why today, behind this decision made for my brother Ekrem, there is a great fear. There is fear in you. There is fear of democracy. There is fear of the will of the people. Yes, they are afraid. But we are not afraid. We say, 'Down with tyranny, long live freedom,'" he said. “I am not only going to Istanbul from here; I call out to our capital Ankara, Izmir, Hakkari, Edirne, Sinop, Adana, Diyarbakir, Trabzon, all cities," said Imamoglu, "Do you know why? What is experienced here today can be made possible for our people all over our country. We will rise as a nation. We will regret those who try to condemn us. Where will we do? We will do it at the ballot box, at the ballot box. It may have been 3,5 years. But I still have my youth, my youth. We still have high hopes. Like me, there are millions of Turkish people who will take off their jackets and roll up their sleeves. There is the Turkish nation, thirsty for justice. I want to take your word. Everything will be great in 2023. Let Ankara hear; Let the mind who intervened in that court hear today," he said. Saying, "We will be here again tomorrow," İmamoğlu said to the citizens, "We will invite you and talk about it. We will be together with CHP Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the invaluable IYI Party Chairman Meral Akşener and other political party leaders of the six-table. We will fight for democracy," he said.
Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) President Ekrem İmamoğlumet with tens of thousands of Istanbulites in Saraçhane after he was sentenced to 2 years 7 months and 15 days in prison and a political ban decision was taken in the case where he was tried for allegedly insulting YSK members. IYI Party Chairman Meral Akşener also came to IMM's main campus in Saraçhane to support İmamoğlu. Welcoming Akşener in front of the İBB building with his wife Dilek İmamoğlu under the stampede, İmamoğlu also met with Parliamentary CHP Group Deputy Chairman Engin Altay, Vice Presidents Seyit Torun and Muharrem Erkek in the office.
SUPPORT FROM 102 YEAR OLD UNAT TO IMAMOĞLU
Answering the solidarity calls from the six table leaders, İmamoğlu received a surprise support from 102-year-old writer, translator, lawyer, sociologist, political and communication scientist Nermin Abadan Unat. Receiving the information that Unat was in the crowd in the İBB building, İmamoğlu hosted the doyen in his office. Unat's response to İmamoğlu, who greeted him with the words "I'm glad you came", said, "I voted, I came for my vote. Where will I go if I don't come to you? CHP Istanbul Provincial Chairperson Canan Kaftancıoğlu and IYI Party Istanbul Provincial Chairperson Buğra Kavuncu were among the names supporting İmamoğlu.
CITIZENS ILLUMINATE THE ROAD
Under the stampede, Akşener and İmamoğlu stood on the bus positioned in Saraçhane under the slogans of "Right, law, justice", "Government resignation", "Ekrem President is not alone", passing the road illuminated by mobile phone lights, and addressed the citizens who filled the area. . İmamoğlu said, “Welcome to Saraçhane, to your home. Istanbulites, we said, 'Whose Istanbul'? your, yours; 16 million Istanbulites. What crazy could set a barrier in front of the nation's process. Nobody, nobody. Nobody can hit. Tonight we are one, we are together. Starting tomorrow, we will be together more and more. We will be together more. Now we are starting a beautiful moment of our unity and solidarity tonight. It will get bigger tomorrow. Our General Presidents will be here; we will all be But for this evening to be crowned, I invite our IYI Party Chairman, Meral Akşener, to address you” and then gave the microphone to Akşener.
AKŞENER: THERE IS A BIG FEAR BEHIND THIS DECISION FOR MY BROTHER EKREM
The full speech of Akşener to the enthusiastic crowd was as follows:
“Hey, Saraçhane; what did you take, what did you take! Years ago, there was a Metropolitan Mayor who was convicted for a poem he read here. (Crowd 'hoops' sounds.) No, no, no. No, we can't boo. We do what is necessary. And that Metropolitan Mayor called out to you from here, called out to Istanbul and said; 'This song does not end here. It is true, that song did not end there, but today as Meral Akşener, I promise; This song will not end here either. Let's do it first. There is a will in power today that is very afraid of tomorrow. People punish when they are afraid. People persecute when they are afraid. People do injustice when they are afraid. That's why today, behind this decision made for my brother Ekrem, there is a great fear. There is fear in you. There is fear of democracy. There is fear of the will of the people. Yes, they are afraid. But we are not afraid. We say, 'Down with tyranny, long live freedom'. Years ago, there was a Metropolitan Mayor in this square, who was called 'He can't be the headman' because he recited poetry, and headlines were made about him. But, look, he became the President. Because the will of the people was handed out. The cowards of that day, the guardians of that day, -My God, how great you are- who are they with whom? Who became what?”
“YOU ARE THE TURKISH NATION; YOU WILL DO WHAT'S NEEDED AT THE BOX"
“(Government on resignation slogans.) These do not resign, my brother. Do you know what will happen? Do you know what those who made this decision today, those who covered their black robes with injustice, will write at the beginning of their decision? They will say 'in the name of the Turkish nation'; Yes, you are the Turkish nation. And you will do what is necessary at the ballot box. With your free will and halal votes, you will say 'Democracy' at that ballot box. You will say, 'Come on, we are sending you. And you will say, 'Fear is of no use to death.' Now we've had them. The real pain is; that those who lived through these were punished by Ekrem President, the President of the IMM, who was elected with your will, with your power, with the will of the nation, the city, as a result of a theatre. You will tear it at the ballot box, you will tear it with democracy.”
"THEY WILL ESCAPE LIKE WORLD'S COLORS"
“Of course, he will give an account at the ballot box. But just as yesterday's cowards ran away, so will today's cowards run away. Trust yourself, trust your will. Look, remember March 31, 2019. What did they do in the first round? They did injustice. They messed up. They made abidik gubidik. What happened? You made 805 thousand difference. So, fear is of no use in the eternity. Now there is a will here today. Today, a court was established in response to the sentence given to the President. This is the real court, the court established in Saraçhane. From that court brother, they are very afraid now. We will be here tomorrow as 6 Presidents. And we will stand against this injustice. Istanbul, this nation has never bowed to the administration. What are we saying? Down with tyranny, long live freedom…”
İMAMOĞLU: “THE REASON OF WE MEETING IS GREAT ILLEGAL”
Taking the microphone again after Akşener, İmamoğlu's speech was as follows:
“The main reason why we are meeting here tonight is the great lawlessness we have experienced. We experience things in our lives that we cannot imagine. Tonight, our esteemed President shared his feelings with us. My esteemed Chairman, Mr. Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, called me and tomorrow we will be in Saraçhane, at the home of Istanbulites, together with the leaders of the 6 Table. I will share your time with you. I invite our people here tomorrow. We will talk together, we will talk together. We will look at the bright days ahead together. This case is the summary of the situation Turkey has fallen into.”
“THIS CASE IS PROOF THAT THERE IS NO JUSTICE LEFT IN TURKEY”
Taking a break from his speech for a while due to the adhan, İmamoğlu continued his words as follows:
“Prayers made during the adhan will be accepted. I believe in this. And I really wouldn't want to experience the bad decision of this process, which made us experience this moment and this environment that we are ashamed of today, and of course I wouldn't want to invite you here. But if we hadn't had this conversation in an environment where your decision was ignored, we would have played into the hands of those who really want to make this country uninhabitable by making it a habit. That's why we invited you here and I'm having trouble with you. This court, this case is proof that there is no justice left in Turkey. This case is led by people who do not want to bring the highest values such as justice and democracy to the country. In fact, 'We are the state, we are the people. It is a case in which people who say, 'We own everything', influence the process and decide in a reckless and shameless way. It is a case put forward by those who want to put this process into the orbit desired by a handful of people, by fighting with the will of the people. I wish this case was a civil case, if there was a trial before justice. In fact, this case is the case of an order that we will describe as 'corrupt order' in the existing process.”
“EVERY DECISION THEY MAKE IS FOR THEIR OWN INTEREST”
“Every decision they take is for their own benefit, my dear fellow citizens. The difficulties and impoverishment of our nation are the result of an ugly process of will they put forward to cover up many problems from education to justice. In an environment where our children have no hope for the future, today is a process that injures all of us by producing lawsuits with spurious reasons and undermining the law. Those handful of people who established this corrupt order and are the owners of this corrupt order have now stopped fighting bravely, honestly and bravely. It is the process of people who resort to deception and deception to protect their own order, and put into effect unimaginable business and transactions. This corrupt order actually started on the night of March 31, when Anadolu Agency closed that data and dared to steal the election from us. They will never, ever be able to fight against the law, against democracy.”
“THE PERSON TAKING THIS DECISION; ARE THESE WORDS NOT YOURS?”
"Istanbul; You showed great willpower. You slapped democracy in Istanbul. They didn't want to give the choice. You took it apart. They canceled the election on 6 May. You slapped the slap twice. But they were not satisfied, they were not satisfied. Dear compatriots, the will they put forth in today's case is an ugly result. Look, please listen to the word I will read to you: 'We see that the judiciary is not really independent. Thus, it has once again emerged that the functioning of the judiciary is dominated by politics, not justice. Our political rivals, power and interest groups, must have understood that they could not stand in front of us at the ballot box and they could not interrupt us, so they resorted to such a way. This is the wrong way. Because justice will be needed by those who politicize the judiciary one day.' What correct sentences. I think exactly the same. But the person who made this decision; Are these words not yours? These words are from the speech you gave when you were mayor of this municipality about the decision made about you. You see, right? From where to where…"
“THEY CAN GET 3 PEOPLE IN THIS SQUARE”
“Those who set out as 'the nation, the nation' say, 'The people want us, the state is ours'. They will not get results. Let me tell you something? My dear compatriots, if my hope this morning is one, my current hope is one thousand and one. The nation is hurt today. Tens of thousands of people are here. Where will I invite you to get together? Of course, to Saraçhane. The home of the nation, the home of the nation. Look, even here, the broken order puts my security brothers in a difficult situation. Even though we say 'Let's leave', the reflections of that mind here say 'Don't block the way'. So you know what for? So that whoever comes here will be in a difficult situation. Shall I give you an example? Here, the so-called leaders of their alliances made a call 15 days ago and stated that they would hold a meeting. They closed this street all the way to Fatih Mosque. I probably said too; 'I am not saying tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, tens of thousands of citizens will come. I, on behalf of the people of Istanbul, also listed my catering vehicles for them every hundred meters. They held a meeting with three thousand people; three thousand people. I'm telling you this from this: Look, you may be in the court, using your power here and there to put us in trouble, to trouble us, to trouble democracy. But in vain, in vain, in vain, in vain.”
“TOMORROW, WE WILL BE HERE AGAIN WITH THE LEADERS OF THE TABLE OF SIX”
“Dear friends; Tomorrow we will be here again. We will invite you and we will talk. We will be together with the President of the Republican People's Party, Mr. Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the invaluable Good Party Chairman Mr. Meral Akşener and the other political party leaders of the six-table. We will fight for democracy. This country needs justice. This country needs mercy. This country needs conscience. The hope of this country, do not lose your hope. Dear compatriots, I am not only going to Istanbul from here; I call out to our capital Ankara, Izmir, Hakkari, Edirne, Sinop, Adana, Diyarbakir and all cities. I am calling out to Trabzon. I call them all. Do you know why? What is experienced here today can be made possible for our people all over our country. We will rise as a nation. We will regret those who try to condemn us. Where will we do? We will do it at the ballot box, at the ballot box. They want to stretch us. They want to piss us off. They want to anger us. But you know what we're going to do? We have our ideals. We have 2023 ideals. We will work together, shoulder to shoulder, day and night. In order to carry our nation to brighter days, we will together send the mentality that tries to collapse on this country in the elections in 2023. We succeeded in Istanbul, we will succeed in Turkey. Let me tell you here to those who want to intimidate us: It may have been 3,5 years. But I still have my youth, my youth. We still have high hopes. Like me, there are millions of Turkish people who will take off their jackets and roll up their sleeves. There is the Turkish nation, thirsty for justice. I want to take your word. Everything will be great in 2023. Let Ankara hear; Let the mind who intervened in that court hear today. May God be with you."
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