Demirbağ made the following remarks during his appearance on Kanal Fırat:
Of course Elazığ has an owner. There’s Tayyip Erdoğan—after God. There’s us. What does that mean? God forbid—I’m ashamed to say ‘there’s us.’ The owner is God, it’s Tayyip Erdoğan, it’s the state. Those who say ‘Elazığ has no owner’ have no owner themselves. Let them go get their blood tested. It’s not that cheap—it’ll take some investigating. If they shared it out of ignorance, I won’t say anything. But those who started the campaign need to get their blood tested. It’s not the COVID-19 virus—it’s the ‘Betrayal 19’ virus in their blood.
Demirbağ continued, “Three months after the election, they started saying, ‘Elazığ has no owner.’ You’re the one who votes—so don’t vote, then.”.