Kılıçdaroğlu: There has been cooperation between the AKP and the PKK

Here are the key points from CHP Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu’s speech.

Normally, we need to discuss the economy, agriculture, unemployment, children, education and the arts. But we are not going to discuss any of these. The lira is plummeting against the dollar and we have six million unemployed, and we leave these to one side. We all have one thing on our minds: “What is to become of this country?” These misgivings have permeated society, regardless of where people stand, because they have no confidence in the present and the future. Never lose hope, brother. Come what may, rest assured that there is the CHP to defend the integrity of this country, to defend the nation and flag.
They say that Turkey will split unless there is an executive presidency. The person making these comments is unfit to occupy the seat of presidency. He who says that has now taken up service as the partitionists’ lackey. He has to live up to his office and live up to his powers.  He cannot press his powers into the service of others.
We become ever more like North Korea. There’s a dictatorship there, too. It’s a very dangerous development. The United Nations is concerned over developments in Turkey. These things can’t be raised in Turkey because there is censorship.
Turkey is becoming isolated from the world. So, to what end did we establish the Republic and why are we developing democracy? Why are attaching importance to education and science? So as to be part of the civilised world. But, today, Turkey is excluded from that world. We bear an ever-greater resemblance to North Korea.
The UN feels the same concern. It says, “We are concerned over developments in Turkey.” Were it not for us, there would be nobody to voice these things. On what grounds is the UN expressing these concerns? It is thanks to them reporting themselves to the UN. The Republic of Turkey’s representative at the UN says, “We will not conduct fair trials.” He says, “We are carrying out torture.” The picture to emerge is not what Turkey deserves. They criticise us for saying these things.
In 2002, there were 60,000 inmates in prison. This figure has now increased four-fold. Thirty people are in a cell designed for ten. People take it in turns to go to bed. There are thousands of innocent people in jail. They are thrown inside without bye or leave. The number of journalists among them has risen to 241. Turkey is the country that is imprisoning the most journalists. Were we to face the people and say, “We have democracy,” nobody would believe it. Non-commissioned officers and privates are in jail. Students are in jail.

THEY HAVE BROUGHT TURKEY TO THIS STATE BY SUPPORTING THREE TERRORIST ORGANISATIONS
Am I to raise my voice against oppression or am I to raise my voice against the oppressed? Those who remain silent in the face of oppression are mute incarnations of the devil. Those in power have brought Turkey to this state. They did so by supporting, aiding and abetting three terrorist organisations. I made the pronouncement, “Those who come in elections will go in elections.” The poodle media and its functionaries said, “How can you say such a thing?” Am I to say, “Those who come in elections will go in coups.”
We must not sidestep the judiciary. Those implicated in graft must face justice, too.

"DID YOU NOT SEND THE DETAINED MPS TO QANDIL?”
They call these detained MPs extensions of Qandil. Did you not send them to Qandil? Did they not go to İmralı under the government’s supervision? I have never seen such effrontery in my life.
In 2010, the prime-minister at the time said in response to our claim that they were negotiating with the PKK, “I have not negotiated with the PKK and whoever says that is beneath contempt.” In 2012, he said, “I dispatched the people who negotiated with the PKK.”
These people went to and fro between İmralı and Qandil. Were we the ones to set up shop in Oslo? Who appointed them there? There is collaboration between the AKP and the PKK.

"WHO SET UP SHOP AT THE DOLMABAHÇE AGREEMENT?”
We are under attack from two wings: one of them the PKK and the other the AKP. I say this loud and clear. I will show you a photograph. Three people in the Dolmabahçe photograph are at liberty and the rest are in jail. Are these CHP MPs? Who are they? They must first give account for this. It would be a disgrace for me not to ask.
 
Who did the court in Habur send into your care? In Nusaybin, Kalashnikovs were distributed from trucks. The PKK set up tax offices. Was that under the CHP’s watch? They granted legitimacy to the PKK. They made their legitimate ally consort with a terror organisation. They made none less than the Republic of Turkey consort with a terror organisation. The PKK embraces them while the PKK stages attacks on us. They have become joined at the hip.
I will tell you about the drama faced by a mother of one of the fallen. In the past year, the number of our fallen has exceeded 800.

This is what Erkan Özdemir's mother Havva Gül Özdemir has to say:
My lad was pretty much on the small side. Those who saw him thought he’d never make a soldier. He used to call me ten times a day. I wouldn’t get to sleep until the morning. Erkan never missed a call on his phone. It rang and rang, but there was no reply. I looked out of the window in apprehension. I saw an ambulance approaching the house. I went upstairs in the hope it wouldn’t come to us. Then I came down. My boy departed without ever living. On the Thursday they called from his unit. They were going to send his stuff by courier. My lad was cold. He told me, “It’s cold here, mum.” I got him underwear and sent it off so he wouldn’t be cold. You know, my boy was very fond of macaroni. Following his departure, I’ve been unable to eat macaroni. I still can’t.
I call out to the gentlemen living in Ankara. Which of you has sons on military service in the East and South-East?

We have students being lynched.  I went to Izmir. In the evening, I called in at Murat Tekin's house. The son of poor people. He was lynched on the Bosphorus Bridge. His dad makes inquiries in case they go to the mortuary and he isn’t there. Then they find him at the mortuary. His dad is really cut up. They opened the zip and he saw his kid. In the flower of his youth; a second-year air-force student. He took him from the mortuary and asked for an ambulance. They wouldn’t provide one and he speaks of how he brought him to Izmir using his own means. They wanted to hold his funeral in Izmir but they weren’t willing to put it on. They buried him in a village. For the time being he says he hasn’t put up a notice at his son’s grave, and won’t do so until he is recognised as being one of the fallen. I have spoken to Mr Erdoğan about this. He says I am right. We have come to the verge of losing our humanity. It has reached the stage at which a Muslim’s funeral cannot be held. What kind of humanity is this?

A plague on both the houses of those who for whatever reason engage in or commission or support or turn a blind eye to terrorism. I fully agree. Can they say that? No. They have aided and abetted. We simply defend our people’s rights. We wish for everyone to be tried justly. It is justice that makes and renders a state a state