AK Party spokesman Ömer Çelik reacted to İYİ Party member Erhan Usta for his statements against National Assembly Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş in the Planning and Budget Committee.
AK Party spokesman Ömer Çelik said, “We condemn in the strongest terms the disrespectful and insulting words against our National Assembly Chairman Mr. Numan Kurtulmuş, which took place under the roof of the Supreme Council.”
Ömer Çelik reacted to İYİ Party Deputy Erhan Usta for his statements against National Assembly Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş at the Planning and Budget Committee of the Turkish Parliament. Issuing a statement on his social media account, Çelik said, “We condemn in the strongest terms the disrespectful and insulting words against our National Assembly Speaker, Mr. Numan Kurtulmuş, that took place under the roof of the Supreme Council.”
Stating that Numan Kurtulmuş presided over a process carried out in accordance with the law, principles and democratic traditions in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey on one of the important issues of Türkiye, Çelik said, “The disrespectful words used to target a legitimate process carried out by our Speaker of the National Assembly as a responsible politician are also disrespectful towards our Supreme Parliament. Which those who Not being able to distinguish between opposition and disrespect does not make democratic politics, it is just political poisoning.”
WHAT HAPPENED?
Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye, Numan Kurtulmuş, presented to the Planning and Budget Committee the Parliament's 2026 budget proposal. Speaking later, İYİ Samsun Party Deputy Erhan Usta criticized the “Türkiye-free” process. Erhan Usta then turned to Parliament Speaker Kurtulmuş and said, “As Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye, I don't understand where your love for the PKK comes from.” These words caused tension within the committee.
KURTULMUŞ: THIS IS UNLIMITED, NOT FAIR Kurtulmuş then stepped onto the floor and said, “Arrogant and hurtful words are beyond their scope. This friend of ours must make it clear that he has renounced the words he said in this hall. I am not a sympathizer or lover of the PKK. If you accept this, I will return it to you. Do not continue the political agenda you are carrying out with such simple tricks. If there is any love in me, then I will love this country and people. I know and accept every individual of this nation, 86 million, as my brother, “I know that all those who want to discriminate between the people of this country as 'Turkish-Kurds' are harming this country and are doing injustice. I think that all those who divide the people of this country into 'right-left, Alevi-Sunni' are betraying the country. So, saying this to someone who has expressed his clear ideas throughout his 40 years of political life, can be said to be excessive, unfair and rude,” he said. Afterwards, the Chairman of the General Assembly of the Turkish Parliament, Numan Kurtulmuş, left the Planning and Budget Committee. After that, Committee Chairman Mehmet Muş adjourned the session for 10 minutes.
