A massive crowd gathered in Tekirdağ today to demonstrate their support for Ekrem İmamoğlu, as political tensions rise in Turkey. The rally featured a powerful speech from CHP leader Özgür Özel, who directly addressed President Erdoğan.

Özgür Özel: “You Cannot crush the Ant”

Following the reading of a letter from Ekrem İmamoğlu, CHP leader Özgür Özel took to the stage, delivering a fiery address. “You are trying to crush him like an ant from your ivory towers,” Özel declared. “Here, I call out to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: You cannot crush the ant. The ant has a brother, and that brother is the Republican People’s Party!”

You cannot crush the ant. The ant has a brother,he is the Republican People’s Party.

İmamoğlu’s Message: “We will Not Submit”

Ekrem İmamoğlu, unable to attend in person, sent a letter that was read aloud to the assembled crowd. In his message, İmamoğlu greeted and thanked the people of Tekirdağ, emphasizing the importance of law, confidence, and conscience in Turkish society.”This personalized, so-called legal order does not feel safe by no one who has not been added directly to power,” he stated.

İmamoğlu asserted that the “so-called judiciary” is attempting to hold not only him and his colleagues hostage, but the entire nation. “Fears and games do not submit to the games,” he vowed.

The full text of İmamoğlu’s letter is as follows:

“Hello Tekirdağ. Women, young people, workers, retired, farmers, tradesmen, the fertile land of Tekirdağ, the growing industry, the future of this lovely country, everyone who believes in the future of this beautiful country. We will continue to be thrown into the right to defend the right of the right to seek the right of the right of the right.”

“Since the March 19 coup, they have been building various calias”

“However, a country, only with law, confidence, conscience survives. And justice, not only in the courts, in the factory, port, school, OIZs, in the village, in the neighborhood, that is, in the middle of life. here we, our nation deserves an honorable life, welfare, we have come to the side of the nation. The so -called judgment, not only me and my valuable tasks are trying to be taken hostage.”

“Tekirdag is not just a city…”

“In this struggle, like every corner of our country, Tekirdağ also has a great importance. Because Tekirdağ is not only a city, our door opened to Europe with its industry, agriculture, ports and railways, the city of production, labor, hardworking. In Suleymanpaşa, the young people are under the average of the young people.”

“This painting is not a fate”

“This painting is not a fate; it is indeed the result of the wrong policies and unjust administrations that a handful of a handful of the survival that thinks of their survival, not Türkiye. We are persistent to reverse this course. We will establish a Tekirdağ, where there is, the villagers and the urbanism do not feel excluded. “

“We have been resisting this caliper together since the March 19 coup”

For this, we need a new understanding of management, a politics walking hand in hand with our nation and a strong spirit of solidarity.How have we been resisting against this caliper since the March 19 coup, and when we come out of this cender and rebuild democracy, we will take every stone together. We will not let our courage, our hope to take away.”