Ekrem İmamoğlu, the President of the IMM and the candidate for the Vice President of the Nation Alliance, met with the citizens in Kırklareli. Speaking at Cumhuriyet Square, İmamoğlu said, “We want power.
Why? Not a handful of people, not a single person’s power at all, not a family’s power at all. We set out for the power of our 86 million people. Do you know what is the biggest problem of this country right now? A mind says: ‘I know. I will do it. Whatever I say is true.’ By God, we will send the mind that says ‘I’ to his home on May 14th.
Which mind will come? The mind that turns its face to its citizens, benefits from the ideas of 86 million people of this country, is aware of this wealth, thinks with them, produces with them, defends their rights, shares the riches of this country with them, not with a handful of people, but with its nation, comes to power. Remember that our path is one. Remember we have a long way to go. Remember that we will work hard. Don’t forget to trust yourself. Remember that hope is you. Be arm in arm. Unity is strength. Become a part of the power of unity, each of you. Let’s power together. Let there be 86 million power. Everything will be fine,” he said.
Ekrem İmamoğlu, Mayor of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) and vice president candidate of the Nation Alliance, visited Kırklareli with his wife Dilek İmamoğlu. Accompanied by Tekirdağ Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Kadir Albayrak and Büyükçekmece Mayor Hasan Akgün, İmamoğlu couple made a series of visits to the city under the guidance of Kırklareli Mayor Mehmet Siyam Perakendeoğlu and his wife Sibel Tohumoğlu. İmamoğlu and his delegation’s first stop in the city was the “Atatürk House” in Yayla District, which was built exactly as the house where the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, was born in Thessaloniki. After visiting the museum, İmamoğlu, Albayrak and Kapakoğlu, who went to Cumhuriyet Street, made visits to the tradesmen. Faced with the intense interest of citizens and tradesmen, İmamoğlu fulfilled the requests of citizens to take photos.
KILIÇDAROĞLU CONDUCTED GREETINGS FROM AKŞENER AND YAVAŞ
Visiting the Kırklareli Municipality after his visit to the shopkeepers, İmamoğlu made a short speech at the city council. İmamoğlu delivered his second speech to the enthusiastic crowd of citizens filling the Cumhuriyet Square in front of the city hall. To citizens; Conveying the greetings of the founding leaders of the Nation Alliance, CHP Chairman and Presidential candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, IYI Party Chairman Meral Akşener, Six Table leaders and Ankara Metropolitan Mayor and Vice Presidential candidate Mansur Yavaş, İmamoğlu briefly said the following in his speech:
“FIRST, WE WILL GET OUR DEMOCRACY ON RAILS”
“This is a very important journey. The year 2023 is the 100th anniversary of our Republic. We would like to talk about other things. We would like to talk about other goals in this square today. However, we have responsibilities that we must do first. What are these responsibilities? First, we will get our democracy back on track. In this country, we will put the elements of right, law and justice before our country in a strong way. At the same time, we will be involved in intensive work on all the elements you can think of, from education to economy, from health to agriculture. In other words, our country needs a restructuring, a revision. Our country has suffered great losses. It has had serious problems in recent years. We need a period that will rehabilitate and correct these problems. We’re going for it. We are forming a great alliance for him. We come to terms with it. Together, we will win such a period of power in this country in its 100th year.”
“WE SET OUT FOR THE POWER OF 86 MILLION PEOPLE”
“We want power. Why? Not a handful of people, not a single person’s power at all, not a family’s power at all. We set out for the power of our 86 million people. We, the youth and children of this country, set out to make their dreams come true not outside the borders of this country, but on the territory of this country. We set out so that the people of this country, without farming, cultivating or producing their lands, but so that fertility would spring up in every corner of our country, on their lands. In such a period, we will take responsibility. We set out to create a country where women suffer from hardship and violence, and where women’s rights and freedoms are not negotiated politically. We, in this country, set out to become a country in the 100th year of the Republic, in the 21st century of the world, where our girls cannot go to school, cannot get enough education, and where our girls are not exposed to any violence, no matter where they are in the country.”
“WHY ARE UNIVERSITIES CLOSED IN THIS COUNTRY RIGHT NOW?”
“Do you know how we see our youth in this country? You know, not someone who says, ‘Let them go,’ like someone… Not for the sake of voting. In other words, not as someone who looks at young people as vote tanks, never. Do you know how I see myself? How many young people between the ages of 15-30 do we have in this country? Let me tell you the number: We have 21 million young people. I set out to lay my back on them. I set out to strengthen our country with the energy of the youth, with the ideas, dhikr, mind and creative feelings of the youth. How is it going to be? Our young people will be free. Our young people will speak. Our young people will speak their minds everywhere. No one will silence our youth. As they become free, they will produce. As they become free, they will become the most creative elements of the country. Today’s government is putting obstacles in front of them with the prohibitions it has put forward. For God’s sake, I ask you: Why are universities closed in this country right now? Do you mind? Where can you fit this? We set out to save this country from people whose minds are so dark that they can even make decisions so that young people cannot receive education. Free universities are not waiting for toms and tanks at their gates; We are on our way to enter the top 100 and 500 of the world, produce science, produce science, produce ideas, make inventions, so that their universities can grow, so that Bogazici, ITU, Istanbul University will come to the place it deserves.”
“WE ARE NOT WHERE WE DESERVE”
“We are not where we deserve to be. We move very fast with the producing people of this country. But we have shackles. We must get rid of them. Do you know what is the biggest problem of this country right now? A mind says: ‘I know. I will do it. Whatever I say is true.’ For God’s sake, there are mothers and fathers here. I ask with a smile. We also have three children with my wife. May Allah forgive all our children. From the youngest, the baby, as a parent, one day impose on him “I know”, he will not leave you what he did not do. It poisons your life at home. By God, we will send the mind that says ‘I’ to his home on May 14th. We’ll send him home. Which mind will come? The mind, which turns its face to its citizens, benefits from the ideas of 86 million people of this country, is aware of this wealth, thinks with them, produces with them, defends their rights, shares the riches of this country with them, not with a handful of people, but with its nation, comes to power.”
“OUR STAFF IS VERY RICH; BECAUSE YOU EXIST”
“We are at a very important time, friends. If we all think about our future, if we think about our children and young people, if we think about the future; We will immediately put our hands under the stone together. Relentless, immeasurable; sir was right wing, left wing, ocu, bucu, no. We will embark on this journey with every citizen of my country, from the northernmost to the southernmost, from the westernmost to the easternmost, without leaving even one of our 86 million people. We will vote for the nation. We will use our vote for the power of the nation. We will cast our vote for the Nation Alliance. Our staff is very rich, let me tell you. First of all, let our President’s mind of the state, our President’s conscience, and our President’s fondness for the concepts of rights, law and justice stay in your mind for once. At the same time, I just said that there are very valuable leaders and managers in this staff. I brought some greetings to you. But do you know why we have rich staff? Because you are. Look; If the qualified people of this country serve where they deserve, this country has no problems. You are rich for it. We are not coming to establish a family power. We are not coming to establish an environment in which party people have authority. We, in the cadres of the state, the children of this country, are coming to create a country that rises with its merits, not by being wronged in the exams. That is why we will be a government that benefits from its greatest wealth.”
“A DEMOCRACY STOPPED SUCH A DEMOCRACY AT THE ballot box that OUR NATION STILL HAS NOT COME TO THEIR MIND”
“We had an election in Istanbul. What did they do? They did their best to win the election in Istanbul. They even made all kinds of pollution, all kinds of scribbling, but we still won the election. They were not satisfied, they tried to take the election from us. They tried to cancel the election. What has our nation done? He slapped such a democracy at the ballot box that they still did not come to their senses, still. They’re still dizzy. If not, Imamoglu. What if a mayor is this hard to deal with? Do you know what the reason is? That nation’s democracy slap is so hard that it still falters. Are you ready to drop that staggered one to the ground? Are you ready to slap democracy? We will do it together. This slap of democracy is a knockout. But the good thing is: You get up right away, he sends you home. It’s not like a boxing ring. We will make it. In the coming days, we will succeed in many policies, from agriculture to economy, from health to culture, from art, to science, to technology, in the twenty-first century, to become a main producer country, not a ‘maraba’ in the world. I do not want my child, three children, two sons, one daughter, to be a child of a subcontractor country.”
“WE MUST HAVE THE ELECTION FIRST”
“Whatever I want for my three children, I want a country where the bright children and young people I see among you produce, are proud of what they produce, and shake the world with their inventions. Here, we will present you the policies that will prepare the ground for that. We will present it to you. We will not be satisfied with them. We will develop it with you. But first we have to get the choice. You have to work hard until the election. Talk to everyone with a smile. Say, ‘We want to get rid of people who reflect these annoying attitudes and attitudes to us, who make us live, and who talk like they beat their people in television programs and rallies every evening. Say, ‘We want people who feel that they are like the brother of the house, like the brother of the house, like the son of the house, like the father of the house, like a member of the house, and look into the eyes of the citizens like Atatürk, with a smiling face and compassion, to rule this country’. It’s almost time, we’ll do it. We set out with the motto ‘Unity is strength’. We set out because we knew that the strength of the union would be very good for the country. We don’t want-don’t-we-want a single friend, even a single sibling to break up. We want everyone to unite. Those who do not unite, we unite after the election; it is different. But you will not separate. With the spirit of our nation that stands by that united power, we want the game for the Nation Alliance.”
“EVERY DAY WILL GO WORKING”
“We will soon set off and go to Edirne. I will continue to greet my fellow countrymen there. Tomorrow, I will tour the district in Istanbul and make two very beautiful openings with Ms. Meral Akşener. On Saturday, I am both in Sinop and in the evening, we will attend the iftar of our President, our esteemed Presidential candidate – I want to say ‘President’ – together with my President Mr. Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, Mr. Temel Karamollaoğlu. And that’s how every day will go by working. May all the blessings and beauties of the beautiful month of Ramadan be upon you. May all the emotions of the beautiful month of Ramadan bring abundance and blessings to your home. Bring health. We encountered a disaster in the south of our country. We lost our people in the earthquake. We lost our lives. We wish you mercy. May their place be heaven. We share the pain of our citizens. In the presence of all of you, we will rebuild that corner of paradise of our homeland, from our beautiful Hatay to Malatya, from Diyarbakir to Adıyaman, to Maraş, a region that makes good use of every land and corrects mistakes, and that makes the next generations happy with the most modern urbanism of the world. I promise my people. We promise.”
“WE WILL GET BACK FROM THE MIND THAT GAVE VOTES FROM THE PAIN CAUSED BY THE EARTHQUAKE”
“Let’s go there and say, ‘Oh my god, let’s lay a foundation right away, pour concrete in two places, let’s squirt concrete on the swinging irons in three places…’ Look; this is evil. Look; this is bad mind. We will get rid of the mind that tries to gather votes from the pain of the earthquake and the needs of our people. Brother, let’s first solve the shelter needs of our people living there. Let’s solve your urgent needs. After that, let’s do things that show the temporary solutions of their houses and their permanent residences quickly, in solid places, for example, the spirituality and civilization of Hatay, the meticulousness that Mustafa Kemal Atatürk would say “Hatay is my problem”. No. That mind is gone, gone. The mind to make a person happy, even if it’s just by cheating their vote, is the mindset. Let me tell you the biggest thing. This brother promises. Throughout his life, our presidential candidate and all his elements, this nation’s power, this Nation Alliance will never deceive you. For him; My dear friends from Hatay, beautiful children, beautiful young people, I hug you, I hug you. Bless your heart.”
“GET 86 MILLION POWER”
“I will be in Hatay on the first day of the holiday. I will spend this holiday with the people of Hatay. All of our friends, especially our President, will be in the earthquake zone. We will heal the pain, too. In these difficult conditions, in the centennial year, on the path of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, we will all stand up together. Dear friends, thank you very much. I would like to thank my dear friend Mehmet Siyam Keskinoğlu. Thank you to my precious wife Ms. Remember that our path is one. Remember we have a long way to go. Remember that we will work hard. Don’t forget to trust yourself. Remember that hope is you. Hope is you. Remember that hope is yourself. Be arm in arm. Unity is strength. Become a part of the power of unity, each of you. Let’s power together. Let there be 86 million power. May everything be fine.”
KESİMOĞLU: “WE ARE GOING TO A FATE ELECTION”
Kırklareli Mayor Kesoğlu also used the following statements in his speech:
“There are no candidates here anymore. We have our vice president here. From Kırklareli, from Cumhuriyet Square, we shout out to Turkey. Coming coming. Footsteps are coming. What is he saying? ‘I’m Kemal, I’m coming.’ We go to a choice of fate. But the result is clear from here today. Everything will be beautiful. Together we will rise. We will seize the fate of the country. As the Nation Alliance, we will seize the future of the country. We may have differences between us. Those differences are our riches. We accept our differences as a wealth and live side by side in peace and tranquility on the piece of land we call this homeland. Because the common denominator of each of us is democracy; the common denominator of each of us is the Republic; the common denominator of all of us is the rule of law, human rights, secularism; The denominator that created us all is the flag, our flag. It is not the love of the homeland and all of us, but the black love of all of us, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.”
After his speech, İmamoğlu set out for Edirne under the intense interest of the citizens.
Source: (BYZHA) – Beyaz News Agency
