AK Party Spokesperson Ömer Çelik: Cumhur Alliance is a coalition of principles
AK Party Spokesperson Ömer Çelik made statements in a live broadcast in which he participated. Here are the highlights of Çelik’s remarks:
"THE ARREST OF EYLEM TOK AND HIS SON"
Our Minister of Justice stated, Mr. Yılmaz. Information received from America. Hopefully, it will enter the normal legal process. It is important for the law to work. In such cases, evaluations are expected from politics. However, the functioning of the law is important. Of course, public sensitivity is important. What is our desire here? Someone is evading the law. This also causes a wound in the social conscience. This extradition creates an opportunity for the rule of law to operate.
"THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF TALK TRAFFIC LATELY"
When we arrived, we greeted a husband and wife on the street. They said, ‘We are very stressed, what is happening?’ I said they don’t need to stress. There has been a lot of talk traffic lately. Sometimes the tension rises in politics and sometimes it goes normally. Hopefully, we will enter the bayram process without tension. I made an analysis in a program we did with you; in our political life, problems arising from various segments accumulate on the table, paralyzing politics. In this respect, democratic, political life cannot achieve the flow we desire. Certain political movements supported the guardianship, coups, postmodern coups. This poisoned for many years. Something that has crippled our democracy is the fact that we have retreated to identity castles in political life and become unable to speak to each other.
"WE WILL NOT FORM AN ALLIANCE WITH CHP"
Our alliance is called the People’s Alliance. There is no change in the characteristics and principles of this. Did CHP say ‘I am joining the People’s Alliance, I’m giving up what I said’? There is a war above Turkey. There is a genocide happening below Netanyahu. We don’t know where the tension in China-Taiwan will lead. It’s going well with Greece, but when you look at the situation in Serbia, Kosovo, the Balkans. Turkey is right in the middle. Not having enemies in politics, not becoming enemies. We shouldn’t make politics to bury each other’s funeral and wedding. Our parties may be different, our values, our identities, we may differ on many points, but I said we will not give up the Republic of Turkey.
"POLITICAL PARTIES SHOULD BE ABLE TO SIT DOWN AND TALK ABOUT THE COUNTRY’S BIG ISSUES"
What is politics? What is political? How is it built? How is politics built? Even if you do not have theoretical knowledge about all these, if what you do and process minimizes the cost of social life, it is politics, if it increases, it is anti-politics. Human beings have established politics to reduce the cost of social life to these institutions. National level for discussing the big issues of the country It should be available to sit down. This is a cycle. When we started walking with our President, we were all very young. There was a pitch-dark picture of guardianship in front of us. Why did we get involved in hardening? We got into this cycle to fight the mechanisms trying to block politics through guardianship. Twenty years ago, I listened to this speech in Parliament. One of our CHP friends said ‘This is a regime issue.’
"THE WORD MERCHANT OF THE POLITICIAN IS BROAD"
There are many words in Turkish. The word repository of the politician is wide. Now there is a dialogue process. You said AK Party Headquarters, we said we appreciated it. After two days, saying ‘criminal accomplice’ is inconsistent with political courtesy and reason. It is necessary to sit down and talk about meetings involved in political normality. Reality politics no longer determines. The world has entered a long-term political turbulence. The truth of modern politics has turned into a lie. We are entering a period where we need to produce very good strategies. Politics is no longer based on truth. The relationship between the state and government is over. The truth is a barrier against the perception of reality. We continue to act in accordance with these truths, regardless of the momentary and opportunistic attacks we face.
