{"id":281198,"date":"2026-01-08T07:57:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=281198"},"modified":"2026-01-08T07:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:58:10","slug":"open-letter-from-gursel-tekin-to-the-sons-of-chp-i-invite-each-and-every-one-of-you-to-this-glorious-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/open-letter-from-gursel-tekin-to-the-sons-of-chp-i-invite-each-and-every-one-of-you-to-this-glorious-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"G\u00fcrsel Tekin's open letter to the \u2018sons of CHP\u2019: I invite each and every one of you to this glorious struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>G\u00fcrsel Tekin, the Chairman of the Call Committee formed by the court for the CHP Istanbul Provincial Presidency, responded to harsh criticism from the party administration with an open letter shared on his social media account.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not B\u00fclent Ar\u0131n\u00e7's hero, we are not Aziz \u0130hsan Akta\u015f's friend, we are not Ertan Y\u0131ld\u0131z's friend,\u201d said G\u00fcrsel Tekin, referring to the corruption allegations within the party and the support \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel received from AK Party circles.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"tr\">This is my open letter to the sons of the Republican People's Party who have conscience and responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Brothers and sisters,<br \/>\n\u201cA good scar is better than the best advice<br \/>\nmore valuable.\u201d And they say<br \/>\nThe Republican People's Party has that scar.<\/p>\n<p>Republican People's Party;<br \/>\nOn Wisdom, Courage, Chastity and Justice...<\/p>\n<p>- G\u00fcrsel Tekin (@gurseltekin34) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gurseltekin34\/status\/2009144986151883012?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 8, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>G\u00fcrsel Tekin's statement starting with the address \u201cThis is my open letter to the sons of the Republican People's Party who have conscience and responsibility\u201d is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrothers and sisters,<br \/>\n\u201cA good scar is better than the best advice<br \/>\nmore valuable.\u201d And they say<br \/>\nThe Republican People's Party has that scar.<\/p>\n<p>Republican People's Party;<br \/>\nIt is founded on Wisdom, Courage, Chastity and Justice.<\/p>\n<p>His wisdom from love of homeland,<br \/>\nYour courage from glorious history,<br \/>\nWho does not allow corruption to corrupt her chastity<br \/>\nthe spirit of the foundation,<br \/>\nAnd justice is based on conscience<br \/>\nunprecedented in world history<br \/>\nis a party.<\/p>\n<p>Neither a stone thrown by an enemy nor a single rose of a friend can wound us.<br \/>\nWe KNOW what we are doing.<\/p>\n<p>WE are the indomitable and fearless soldiers of the Republican People's Party.<\/p>\n<p>WE are NOT B\u00fclent Ar\u0131n\u00e7's heroes!<\/p>\n<p>We are NOT friends of Aziz Ihsan Aktas!<\/p>\n<p>WE are NOT Ertan Yildiz's friends!<\/p>\n<p>We are uncomfortable with instability where red cards are shown one day and white cards the next.<\/p>\n<p>The one who is silent on the allegations of bribery of contractors and whose silence comes from his guilt, ,<br \/>\nVice Presidents disturb us.<\/p>\n<p>We are uncomfortable with suspicion.<\/p>\n<p>Those of us who add the nation's problems to the onions and bread on people's tables,<br \/>\nprepared by contractors<br \/>\n\u201cThe \u201dmeat pan\" disturbs us, touches our stomachs.<\/p>\n<p>Relations with foreign powers,<br \/>\ncapital groups and rent-seeking gangs disturb us.<\/p>\n<p>Brothers and sisters,<br \/>\nThe same for the same, separate for separate...<\/p>\n<p>As I said; ;<br \/>\nWe know what we are doing,<br \/>\nThe value of this struggle that we have waged together will be understood in the future.<\/p>\n<p>To save our party and our country<br \/>\nI invite each and every one of you to this glorious struggle.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an open letter published on his social media account, G\u00fcrsel Tekin continued his criticism of the party leadership and addressed CHP voters.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":281199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[285],"tags":[15],"class_list":{"0":"post-281198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politika","8":"tag-chp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281201,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281198\/revisions\/281201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}