Turkey’s opposition leader holds group meeting outdoors on 6th day of Justice March

Chair of Turkey’s main opposition party CHP, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, held his party’s weekly parliamentary group meeting outdoors on the 6th day of the Justice March, which was started from Ankara’s Güvenpark after the arrest of CHP MP Enis Berberoğlu.

The meeting, which was held at a place with an altitude of 1570, started off with a moment of silence held for Hasan Tatlı, who lost his life in a heart attack while participating at the march. After their break and 30 minutes long parliamentary group meeting, the chair and the participants of the march continued on with their walk.

Repeating his comments on the threatening remarks of President Erdoğan about the march, Kılıçdaroğlu said: “If someone is reminding me of my rights as if he is doing me a favor then I remind him that he is a dictator! I’m telling him: You are a dictator!”

‘Dictators are not humans because they are people who have lost their conscious completely... They get a special pleasure in damning everyone, regardless of age, with death’, he added.

Asserting that their demand is ‘justice for everyone’, Kılıçdaroğlu sent across a greeting message to jailed educators Gülmen and Özakça and vowed to continue the fight to ensure all victims of injustice – journalists, lawmakers, state employees, and others – in the country eventually get their rights.

Also sending a message for judges and prosecutors, Kılıçdaroğlu gave the cases of Murat Aksoy and Atilla Taş and said: “Prosecutor had said that Murat Aksoy and Atilla Taş should be tried without arrest. And, the judge gave the same decision… But, then, both that prosecutor and the judge were suspended. By whom? By the Council of Judges and Prosecutors... And, they (government authorities) say to us ‘there is a judiciary in this country and you cannot give commands to the judiciary’… Of course, but doesn’t everyone need to abide by the legal decisions? Who doesn’t follow rules and laws? Dictators and coup plotters don’t!”

Calling on the judges and prosecutors to ‘stop getting commands from the presidency’s office’, Kılıçdaroğlu said he would ‘resign from his political position if he could not prove that the government and the president of Turkey gave orders to judiciary.’

Referring to President Erdoğan, Kılıçdaroğlu asked ‘would you resign if I do indeed prove it?’

Source: https://www.birgun.net/haber-detay/kilicdaroglu-ndan-adalet-yuruyusu-nde-grup-toplantisi-165787.html