Protest against Yusuf Tekin during budget negotiations: 'Do the show outside' statement increased tension

The GNAT Planning and Budget Commission convened under the chairmanship of AKP Samsun Deputy Mehmet Muş to discuss the 2027 budget of the Ministry of National Education.

At the meeting, in addition to the MEB budget and final account, the Court of Accounts report, the Council of Higher Education (YÖK), the Measurement, Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM), the Higher Education Quality Board and the budgets of universities were also included on the agenda.

NEW Party Rize Deputy Tahsin Ocaklı, who came to the commission meeting with a sign saying "If you do not come to us, there is no peace for you. Yusuf Tekin resign", repeated his call for Minister Tekin to resign.

Ocaklı said, "If the minister I invited to resign had resigned last year, what would we not have faced this year? Children would not have lost their lives in MESEMs. Students would not have been massacred because they could not take security measures in schools. They will continue to be ashamed of not being able to provide food one day. They are still in office because they ignore the professions of teachers in ÇEDES. This minister, who cannot raise a voice about a billion lira corruption, needs to resign immediately."

The reactions of the opposition MPs continued when the Minister of National Education Yusuf Tekin came to the commission room. NEW Party Manisa Deputy Ahmet Vehbi Bakırlıoğlu called out to Tekin, "Mr. Minister, our young people are detained for exercising their constitutional rights. Are you at peace? Children are dying in MESEM."

Minister Tekin replied to Bakırlıoğlu, "Do the show outside." Tekin then suggested Aşık Dıçari's poem "İnciner" to Bakırlıoğlu.

While Ocaklı continued his protest with the sign in his hand, he did not shake the hand of Minister Tekin, who came to him. DEM Party Istanbul MPs Özgül Saki and Keziban Konukçu Kok also refused to shake hands with Minister Tekin.

Saki drew attention to the deaths of children in MESEMs and said to Tekin, "Children are dying in MESEMs, you should not sleep." In response to Saki, who also stated that he would not shake his hand, Minister Tekin said, "How sorry, how sorry. I won't be able to sleep until the morning because you didn't shake my hand. How will I live because you didn't shake my hand? I would die of sadness."