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Özgür Özel’s gaffs show no sign of stopping: This time he mixed up his own party

From Sabah · () Turkish

Translated from Turkish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • New Party leader Özgür Özel mistakenly called his party the İYİ Party while discussing its membership numbers.
  • After people around him corrected him, Özel joked that he sometimes slips and uses the name of his former party, referring to İYİ Party leader Müsavat Dervişoğlu.
  • The article also recalls an earlier remark in which Özel incorrectly said Fatih Sultan Mehmet conquered Istanbul in 1483.

Özgür Özel has mixed up the name of his own party, adding another verbal slip to a series of remarks that have attracted attention in Turkey.

While discussing the New Party’s membership numbers, Özel referred to it as the “İYİ Party.” “The İYİ Party having millions of members will give strength to the İYİ Party and Turkey,” he said.

The İYİ Party having millions of members will give strength to the İYİ Party and Turkey.

· Özgür ÖzelHe made the slip while discussing the membership of his own New Party.

Those around him alerted him to the mistake, and Özel corrected himself by using the name New Party. He then tried to turn the error into a joke by addressing Müsavat Dervişoğlu, the İYİ Party leader.

Mr. Müsavat, greetings. Let this be something from us. I love the dear chairman very much. Sometimes our tongues still go to our old party instead of the New Party. We try to make sure that does not happen. This time it was a nice gesture to Mr. Müsavat.

· Özgür ÖzelHe tried to make light of confusing the New Party with İYİ Party.

“Mr. Müsavat, greetings. Let this be something from us. I love the dear chairman very much. Sometimes our tongues still go to our old party instead of the New Party. We try to make sure that does not happen. This time it was a nice gesture to Mr. Müsavat,” Özel said.

The article also points to an earlier gaffe at a New Party event in Trabzon. While entering a shop, Özel said that Fatih Sultan Mehmet had grown up in Manisa and conquered Istanbul in 1483.

Fatih Sultan Mehmet grew up in Manisa and conquered Istanbul in 1483.

· Özgür ÖzelThe article cites this as an earlier historical gaffe at a New Party event in Trabzon.
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Originally published by Sabah in Turkish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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