Kolay Aydin, who left the Iyi Party, of which he was one of its founders, announced his resignation and said in a statement that he would continue to serve as an independent.
Aydin’s statement is as follows:
“We asked God for a good party.”
Breaking up is painful and full of sadness.
As brave people who stand up against injustice and lawlessness, we support the Jiyi Party with great hopes, excitement and dreams. We established it with great efforts, hard work and sacrifices.
The İYİ Party was born as a result of real struggles and stories.
The establishment of the Ziya Party changed many things in Turkey and became a source of hope for the opposition and our country. It became the subject of the greatest success obtained against the AK Party government.
But over the past two years, something has started to go wrong.
The IYI Party has had to turn inward at a time when it was about to open up to the masses and expend its energies on intra-party competition by inappropriately and prematurely initiating a district and provincial convention process ahead of the 2023 general elections.
In the run-up to the 2023 general elections, a flawed strategy has been implemented despite the full support of the empowered committee in the Six-Party Talks process.
Then came a new process of separation through so-called parliamentary polls, which was based entirely on alienation and injustice.
The Jiyi Party family home, once filled with peace and security, is now filled with uncertainty and unrest.
In the 2023 presidential and parliamentary elections, the party has, to put it mildly, “repeated the same old thing” and failed to make any progress.
Rhetoric, actions and policies that will bring water to the government factory in the 2024 local elections. It has been totally rejected by our country and the Jiyi Party suffered its biggest defeat in electoral history.
During these processes, the warnings we made to both the empowered committee and the founding chairperson, Ms. Meral Akşener, were ignored.
The Ziya Party was established as the “Ziya and the Brave Movement” to oppose all kinds of injustice, lawlessness and the one-man order that the palace represents, and to pave the way for rights, justice and civilization in Turkey, not to pave the way to the palace.
If the subject and content of the meeting between the President and the Founding Chairperson of the Ji’i Party, Ms. Meral Akşener, at the Palace had not been clearly and unambiguously explained without the Party’s knowledge, I made two important statements with an interval of one week that would have shaken the foundations of the Ji’i Party’s founding principles and led to the collapse of the Party.
While the Party base and our beloved people have shown great interest and goodwill in our appeal, the Party officials have remained indifferent and indifferent to what I have said. They have ignored my concerns, warnings and suggestions. They have failed to take the necessary steps in a timely, adequate and appropriate manner.
The developments that have taken place in the two months since the Jiyi Party’s Fifth Extraordinary Congress have clearly demonstrated that there has been no change in the Party’s operating approach.
After the last Congress, we had hoped for recovery, resilience, and unity within the Party, but we were shaken by resignation after resignation, and while we waited for new members to join, we had to watch export requests being made for trivial reasons.
at this point;
I have unfortunately concluded that our presence, opinions, ideas and suggestions are no longer needed by the Jiyi Party.
The meeting at the Palace and subsequent developments ultimately contributed to my reaching this conclusion, and my opinion is therefore the result of a certain accumulation over a period of about two years.
On August 25, 2017, as I left my father’s home and the old party to which we had dedicated our lives, I uttered these words.
“I do not pursue any profit or calculation. What I will become is nothing more than what I already have. My only wish is to fight until my last breath to leave a more prosperous Republic of Turkey for our children and grandchildren.”
I’m in the same place today.
After lengthy discussions with my friends in the İYİ Party, and for the reasons briefly mentioned, I have regretfully decided to resign from the İYİ Party, having served as a founding committee member and Ankara deputy committee member and having played an important role at some point.
I wish the current Chairman of the Ii Party, Musavat Dervishoor, and his management team every success.
I would like to express my gratitude to all my colleagues who have worked, sweated and struggled at almost all levels of the Yi Party since its inception, and I will allow them their rights if I have them.
As a Turkish nationalist who loves my country and its people, I will continue to work hard and fulfil my duties as an independent member of parliament.
Thank God for the IYI party.
Please stay healthy.
thank you.”
