Ozgur Ozel: "A Timeline Must Be Established for All Refugees to Return to Their Countries"
CHP Chairman Özgür Özel spoke at his party's group meeting. Some highlights from Özel's speech are as follows:
"There are necessary measures that the state should have taken regarding job safety. In this age, with this technology and education, very few countries in the world experience such accidents, explosions, and deaths that occur without reason. No one deserves to see their child explode at the workplace where their mother is about to work, along with 11 friends. Such pains are experienced in Turkey and will continue to be experienced.
For 22 years, unions have been talking about worker health and job safety. In 22 years, 34,000 people have lost their lives in workplace accidents. During the AK Party administration, there have been 113 Soma disasters. We remind them of their responsibilities once again. Families should be at ease; we will share their pain together. We will pursue this matter until those responsible are brought to light.
Tomorrow, we will commemorate our hero of the War of Independence, our second President İsmet İnönü, on the anniversary of his passing. It will not be enough to praise the hero commander of the Western Front, a great diplomat, who did not even think of transferring authority when transitioning to a multi-party system, and who averted dragging this country into disaster by not involving our army in World War II.
CHP members always take pride in him. But those who govern the country attack him instead of criticizing Atatürk. We once again honor İsmet Pasha from our group with respect and remembrance.
In all our contacts, they say that Europe has no issues mobilizing its material resources, but Erdoğan does not want to leave convenient areas. It is necessary to achieve military and political stability in Syria, make it livable, and establish a timeline for all refugees to return to their countries.
He tries to compel citizens by exploiting their religious beliefs. While claiming that the nation is involved in immoral acts as ethnic kin from Bulgaria come, he is now attempting to impose Syrians.
The world is ready to offer money, Europe is ready for cooperation; since Assad has left, everyone will return to their homeland. I say with your words, 'our poor is enough for us.'
Ahmet Özer has been imprisoned for 55 days. While other appointed mayors are being tried without detention, we want to highlight the hostile laws applied to Ahmet Özer once again. First illegal detention, then false secret witnesses. Now, they have begun searching for evidence.
They have requested all phone records for the past 20 years from Ahmet Özer. They have conducted security checks on everyone. We are keeping an eye on the matter. The indictment that cannot be written will become part of the indictment against those who orchestrated this setup in the future.
Özlem Gürses will receive an award at METU. They say go and take statements, take them for house arrest. They say we are strong, we can do anything, we can give everyone a hard time. This power does not exist. It is not difficult to present a crime based on the broken sentence formed by Özlem Gürses.
After all of AK Party's distortions, they promised three times in the election that there would be no price increases, and now they say, 'Price increases increase inflation.' In 2024, they did not increase the minimum wage by a single kuruş, while according to TÜİK, inflation is at 47%. The real inflation for minimum wage earners is 78%. The public expectation has exceeded 30,000 TL. We said we are not below 30. Türk-İş announced that it should be 29,583 TL, while DİSK described it as at least 34,000 TL. We will closely follow this process."