Crisis in the Future Party! Two MPs announced their resignations with a joint statement

Future Party MPs Selim Temurci and İsa Mesih Şahin announced their resignations from their parties.

It was claimed that the two MPs were planning to leave the Future Party and join the AK Party.

In their resignation letter, Temurci and Şahin stated, "We have not abandoned our belief that our people deserve a better future, and therefore, our fight for our country. Our political struggle, together with our comrades, will continue on realistic grounds until the end." They stated that they would continue in politics.

However, the name of the AK Party or any other party was not mentioned in the resignation statement.

The joint statement by Temurci and Şahin is as follows:

“The current situation has made it impossible for the Future Party, which we founded with great hopes, to build a new vision of the future for Türkiye.

The Future Party was founded with great ambition and, during its founding, assembled a highly skilled team, both at headquarters and across its organizations. Our organizations throughout Türkiye have demonstrated extraordinary efforts.

While our party had the potential to be supported by the citizens during its founding period, today it has turned into a political structure that tries to find a place for itself according to the cyclical fluctuations in politics. So much so that even the name of the party has been abandoned in order to take part in non-organic political formations.

A political structure that forgets its purpose, goals, and founding principles can have no future. Therefore, reasons such as the identity crises experienced during the process, a political style disconnected from the realities of the street, alliances that contradict the nature of politics, a self-centered political approach, and a psychology of reckoning with the past have distanced the Future Party from its founding claim.

Politics is conducted with the people and a committed cadre. It's impossible for a political party disconnected from the realities of the street to grow. The "Let it be small, let it be mine" mentality won't produce the kind of politics Türkiye needs.

All the negotiations and verbal and written proposals made within the party after the general and local election defeats regarding the negative situation our party is in have remained fruitless, consultation mechanisms have not been activated on these issues, and moreover, no genuine solution has been put forward by the Chairman.

This situation caused a significant portion of our founders and organizations who worked hard for our party to leave the party in the process.

Tragically, those who set out to promote "competence, merit, and consultation" now demand only "loyalty." Those who claim that governing the country is being personalized have unfortunately surrendered to the "me" mentality. Those who said they would leave our neighborhoods have found themselves at odds with their own neighborhoods.

It's clear that our party has strayed from its founding values and created a significant gap between itself and our citizens' expectations. Yet, political parties conduct politics based on the public's agenda. While our citizens have significant expectations from politics, our party's failure to focus on these expectations and its immersion in theoretical politics is nothing short of a complete failure to truly engage with real politics.

Unfortunately, due to repeated identity crises, our party has been unable to establish a realistic political foundation, nor has a solution been found. Consequently, neither the struggles we waged in parliament nor the outstanding efforts of our organizations have yielded any political results.

At this point, we are resigning from the Future Party, which we founded, in order not to be further contrary to our political stance and conscientious responsibility.

We would like to thank Future Party Chairman Mr. Ahmet Davutoğlu, our members of parliament, our headquarters managers, our Provincial Chairmen, our District Chairmen, and all our organization members, and wish them success.

We have not abandoned our belief that our people deserve a better future, and therefore, our fight for our country. Our political struggle, together with our comrades, will continue on realistic grounds until the very end.

Respectfully announced to the public. 19/07/2025

Source: News Center