The Chairman of the Republican People’s Party, Özgür Özel, hosted the chairmen and directors of the Balkan Rumelian Turks Confederation and civil society organizations in his office in the Turkish Grand National Assembly. During the visit, support was promised for activities related to the Balkans and it was stated that the CHP would conduct more integrated work with BRTK. Özel emphasized that being of Balkan origin is an unbreakable bond between Turkey and the Balkans and stated that NGOs have great responsibilities in ensuring stability in the region.
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The Balkan Rumelian Turks Confederation and NGOs visited the Republican People’s Party Chairman Özgür Özel in his office in the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
Heads and directors of civil society organizations led by Balkan Rumelian Turks Confederation (BRTK) Head Sabri Mutlu, who visited Republican People’s Party Leader Özgür Özel in his office in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, received promises of support from the CHP leader for activities related to the Balkans. CHP Leader Özel received information from Chairman Mutlu about the Balkan Rumelian Turks Confederation. Özel, who stated that Balkan Rumelian Turks had a major share in their success in the local elections, promised that his party would carry out more integrated and programmed joint work with BRTK on this issue. Expressing that the CHP was ready to make every contribution to the projects to be implemented under the guidance of BRTK and to take steps that would meet the needs of the people of the region and their expectations from Turkey, Özgür Özel said that NGOs had great responsibilities in ensuring and making permanent an environment of stability and trust in the Balkans.
The CHP leader, who drew attention to the fact that the founding leader of the CHP and Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, and the majority of the leading cadres who organized the national struggle were of Balkan origin, emphasized that Turkey and the Balkans were connected to each other with an unbreakable spiritual bond. Özel said, “From my childhood memories to the present, my Balkan past has been a determining factor in every aspect of my life. Both the ties and stories related to that place by my mother and father, and the communication I had with the environment in Manisa have always caused us to remember this past. As of today, we should reflect Turkey’s political, economic, social and cultural power to the region in the name of friendship and brotherhood. We should create joint projects with the Balkan countries through the local governments we have come to power in, and implement these studies with all our sensitivity and meticulousness. BRTK should prepare a roadmap for our party thanks to the joint commissions to be formed on this issue.”
The meeting was attended by BRTK Chairman Sabri Mutlu, Bursa CHP MP Hasan Öztürk, BRTK Secretary General Sami Ömer, Deputy Secretary General Kenan Aral, Central Anatolia Balkan Migrants Federation Chairman İbrahim Deliormanlı, Balkan Turks and Refugee Associations Federation (BGF) Board Member and BRTK General Assembly Delegate İsmail Korkmaz, BRTK General Assembly Delegates Sevgi Aral and Hasan Yarbasan, BRTK Disciplinary Board Member Gülten Yarbasan, Gültepe Macedonia Migrants Culture and Solidarity Association Chairman and federation board member Birol Özkardeşler, Havza Balkan Turks Association Chairman Hasan Gümüş. – BURSA
Source: UAV
