
Minister Güler received a response to İYİ Party Deputy Yasin Öztürk's parliamentary question regarding the reopening of military hospitals.
Minister of National Defense Yaşar Güler, in his response to the parliamentary question regarding the requests for the reopening of military hospitals, stated that health services are carried out in coordination with the Ministry of Health and the number of military health personnel has increased.
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Military hospitals were transferred to the Ministry of Health with Law No. 6756. MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli defined the reopening of military hospitals as a matter of national survival.
Minister of National Defense Yaşar Güler made a statement regarding the questions regarding military hospitals in the proposal submitted to him.
İYİ Party Denizli Deputy Yasin Öztürk brought the demands regarding military hospitals to the agenda of the Parliament.
Öztürk asked the following questions for Güler to answer:
"Have your Ministry received the veterans' demands for the reopening of military hospitals? How were these demands evaluated? What is your Ministry's opinion on the re-establishment of GATA? Is it planned to restructure military hospitals within the Ministry of National Defense?"
Minister of National Defense Yaşar Güler did not answer the questions directly, but instead explained the "function".
"ALL HOSPITALS PROVIDE SERVICES TO TAF PERSONNEL"
Güler's answer is as follows:
“With Law No. 6756, military hospitals have been transferred to the Ministry of Health, and the health services to be provided to the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) personnel are carried out on the basis of national health services in coordination with the Ministry of Health, within the framework of the provisions of the "Protocol on Health Services to be Provided by the Ministry of Health to the Turkish Armed Forces" dated 07 February 2018.
Service is provided to Turkish Armed Forces personnel in all Ministry of Health hospitals, especially Gülhane Training and Research Hospital, which was transferred to the Ministry of Health. Additionally, within the scope of the Protocol, five hospitals are planned to serve only Turkish Armed Forces personnel. The effectiveness of the health services needed by the personnel has been increased through the Ministry of National Defense coordination units opened in nine hospitals where Turkish Armed Forces personnel use intensively in the provision of health services.
"All necessary medical treatment and healthcare procedures are carried out meticulously within the scope of the treatment, care and rehabilitation of our heroic personnel, who serve as Turkish Armed Forces personnel and are veterans, especially within the scope of the fight against terrorism, and within the scope of the circular numbered 2024/11 of the Ministry of Health, priority is given to the relatives of martyrs and veterans and their families during examination."
"THE NUMBER OF MILITARY HEALTH PERSONNEL IS INCREASING"
"In order to perform all kinds of duties entrusted to the Turkish Armed Forces, activities are carried out to train military students needed by our Ministry in the field of health and to procure medical personnel from external sources.
"Within the scope of health personnel training activities, military medical officers and health petty officers are graduating from military students who are educated at the University of Health Sciences on behalf of our Ministry, and the number of military physicians and military health personnel is increasing over the years."
BAHÇELİ SAID "NATIONAL SURVIVAL ISSUE"
MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli had called for the opening of military hospitals many times.
Bahçeli said the following in his statement in June:
"It is a pity that today, Turkey is the only country within NATO that does not have a military hospital. This is an unacceptable historical deficiency in the face of the size and operational capability of our army. Restructuring of military hospitals, reviving the Gülhane spirit according to the modern needs of the age and strengthening war surgery is a matter of national survival."

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