Passenger guarantee did not hold at Ankara Train Station: 885 million TL payment from the Treasury to the company

NEW Party Zonguldak Deputy Deniz Yavuzyılmaz, in his post on his social media account, shared the one-year passenger information of Ankara Train Station, which was built with the Build-Operate-Transfer model.

Stating that 10 million departing passengers were guaranteed for the station, but the actual number of passengers remained at 2 million 988 thousand 839, Yavuzyılmaz noted that the margin of error between the guaranteed number of passengers and the actual number was 70 percent.

Yavuzyılmaz stated that the Treasury will pay the company 17 million 700 thousand dollars including VAT, or 885 million liras at the current exchange rate, and said, "This is not a Treasury guarantee, but a guarantee of impoverishing the citizens."

In his post, Yavuzyılmaz also included information about the company in charge of the project, the dates of opening to service and transfer to the public. Reminding that Ankara Train Station was put into service in 2016 and will be transferred to the public in 2037, Yavuzyılmaz noted that the company in charge is ATG Gar İşletmesi AŞ, a joint venture of KOLİN, CENGİZ and LİMAK.

"THE REVENUES ARE LEFT TO THE COMPANIES"

Deniz Yavuzyılmaz said, "The number of passengers guaranteed for 2026: 10 million. The number of outgoing passengers guaranteed until the transfer to the public is 106 million. The guarantee amount per passenger is 1.5 Dollars + VAT. In addition, within the scope of this project, the revenues of a four-star hotel with 134 rooms, 268 beds, a shopping mall with 170 stores and a parking lot with a capacity of 1,200 vehicles have been left to these companies for 20 years and 6 months."