Socialist Reestablishment Party (SYKP) Party Assembly (PM) member Ahmet Saymadi was arrested.
Saymadi, who was taken into custody after a search by Narcotics Branch police at the Kadim Meyhane in Beyoğlu, Istanbul, which he owns, on Saturday night, was transferred to Çağlayan Courthouse after his procedures at the police station. Saymadi, who was brought before the judge, was arrested after his defense.
Ahmet Saymadi used the following statements in his social media post regarding the development in question:
"After the tweets of TİP MP Ahmet Şık about the Minister of Justice Akın Gürlek, based on the fund grab, the account named "Ankara Kuşu" targeted both me and Kadim Meyhane, which I manage, based on our closeness with Ahmet Şık. Thereupon, a report was made against me that I facilitated drug use at my workplace. The prosecutor's office took this notice into consideration and at 23:00 on Saturday, October 3, at my workplace. He gave an order to search me. Nothing was found during the search at my workplace, and no problems were found among our staff or even our customers. Despite this, I gave blood, urine and hair samples. Today, I was arrested for an issue that I had nothing to do with. Our attitude towards drugs is clear. I respectfully commemorate Hasan Ferit Gedik, who lost his life while fighting against drugs. It belongs to our people.
See you in free days."
HARD REACTION FROM AHMET ŞIK: HE LISTED HIS QUESTIONS TO AKIN GÜRLEK
On the other hand, Turkish Workers' Party Istanbul Deputy Ahmet Şık reacted by quoting Saymadi's post.
Şık, who also announced Saymadi's own partner, asked questions to the Minister of Justice Akın Gürlek.
The sharing in question is as follows:
"I call out to Akın Gürlek, who believes that the power he has gained is unlimited, thanks to the seat he was placed in, not for merit but for a highly questionable loyalty:
Take your hands off my family, my friends, and my friends.
I'm standing right in front of you.
Fight with me so that we can understand whether the person I am fighting is brave or not...
This post seems personal. However, I share with the public who will be responsible for any evil that may happen to me, my family and my friends. I will continue to share.
On the other hand, since the issue is about fund robbery involving figures from the AKP and the state bureaucracy, it is undoubtedly a political and social aspect.
After the fund robbery was revealed, an intense attack was launched after I started to announce the information/claims I had obtained on the subject, first through parliamentary questions and then on social media.
Furkan Torlak, one of the advisors of the Minister of Justice, who set up a troll+media manipulation sewer with his fake identity as Mehmet Kap, brought in the trolls he kept on a leash, media members pro-government, and when it turned out that these were not enough, some names he bought from the market of those who appeared to be oppositionists and who were "as respected as himself".
Frankly, there is no one who deserves an answer. I would consider it a disgrace to respond to allegations made against me by targeting my family.
However, Ahmet Saymadi, whose friendship I have never doubted, was arrested today as part of these attacks. This friendship, which has spanned many years and has been tested many times in bad times, is now being tested once again with a hollow drug accusation.
Last Saturday, the tavern named Kadim was raided by narcotics teams due to allegations that we were partners with Ahmet Saymadi, who has been running a restaurant for years. The reason was a fake e-mail notification alleging "drug supply and use" at the location in question. It is not difficult to guess who made this report to whom!
During the search, no criminal element was found, and the GBT checks performed on everyone, including the customers, that night also came back clean. In other words, a report was kept stating that no criminal elements were found. Despite this, Ahmet Saymadi was detained just because he was my friend. Ahmet Saymadi, who was referred to the prosecutor's office on the charge of fraudulently "enabling drug use" after 2 days of detention, was arrested by the Criminal Court of Peace.
In the MASAK examination of financial accounts, the question regarding money transfers between us via bank transfer reveals the main goal and purpose. Ahmet Saymadi was asked what the money transfers he sent me were.
Let me repeat here what Ahmet said to the prosecutor and the judge:
He used my credit card with a high limit to purchase goods for the place he runs, and when the payment day came, he paid me the amount he used. Credit card account statements taken from the bank were also presented to the court. When it became clear that there would be no accusations, they arrested Ahmet with an e-mail tip, the meaning of which was unknown but known to those who had it done.
Let me announce here that we are partners with Ahmet.
We are not among those who go around pretending to be trolls and journalists, neither those whom you take hostage and surrender with threats and intimidation, nor those you know how much they will buy. So this camaraderie is not like your complicity based on your personal interests.
We have a partnership and comradeship in the fight against those who corrupt the state and turn it into a mafia, those who establish a gang order through the positions they hold, those who continue to lie shamelessly while everything is in front of everyone's eyes, those who are determined to extort every last penny from the citizens' pockets with commissions from tenders, bribes taken in investigations and lawsuits, or fund robberies.
Now let's ask Akın Gürlek:
-Do you have any signboard companies established abroad on behalf of you, other relatives and members of your family, or some names in your immediate circle, associated with offshore accounts?
-Have large amounts of transactions been made from the portfolio investment companies mentioned in the fund robbery investigation under the guise of "foreign investors" through these companies?
-The CMB administration, which imposed a fine of approximately 9 million on Tera portfolio management company due to manipulative transactions a few months before the fund theft was revealed, did not take any preventive/controlling action against this heist. If there is no conflict of interest, isn't it a conflict of interest that you are the head of the judiciary that conducts the investigation while your spouse is at the helm of the CMB, which is the institution that prevents/supervises such robberies and is at least a suspect of "neglect/abuse of duty" charges?
-Have you met with the detained suspects of the fund robbery investigation, Emre Tezmen, Muhammed Yarız and Erdin Özel, in certain hotels in Istanbul in 2024, 2025, 2026, from the time of Deputy Minister of Justice until today? What are the dates, places, purposes and contents of the meetings?
-New Party Chairman Özgür Özel announced 16 separate properties that he claimed were registered to you. In your statement, you said that you have 4 title deeds. However, will you disclose the passive title deed records that include all the real estate purchases and sales you have made from past to present?
-Have you requested the relevant ministry to delete these inactive records? Have you received a response from a senior official in the relevant ministry: "It has not been deleted for 200 years, so it is impossible to delete it"?
-Let's repeat our questions in the following link https://x.com/ahmetsahmets/status/2104288506986066408, provided that they remain valid; "Are you aware of the crimes committed by your consultant, Furkan Torlak, with the troll+media manipulation gang under the fake identity of Mehmet Kap?"
