The General Assembly of the Turkish Grand National Assembly convened under the chairmanship of the Deputy Speaker of the Parliament, Yusuf Beyazıt, to discuss the 'Turkish Red Crescent Law' proposal, which includes the regulations regarding the Red Crescent. After the speeches outside the agenda were met, the 1-minute speech request given to the MPs was met, and then the group's deputy chairmen made their evaluations regarding the agenda. In this episode, there was a discussion about 'funds' among the group deputy chairmen.
New Party Group Chairman Bülent Kaya said the following regarding the investigation launched regarding the transactions in the capital market:
"The issues related to the robbery, which we call 'fund robbery' and which has had an important place in our country's agenda for about 3 weeks, continue to be on the agenda of our nation and our Parliament. I emphasize that the main intention of those who try to normalize this by saying 'fund issue, fund crisis or funding' is unfortunately to try to ignore it. We need to evaluate these issues together, accepting once and for all that this is not a fund issue or fund crisis, but an organized robbery, an organized robbery."
"Mr. Şimşek, IF YOU CAN'T DO IT, GO AWAY"
Recalling the past words of the Minister of Treasury and Finance Mehmet Şimşek regarding the stock market, İYİ Party Group Deputy Chairman Turhan Çömez said:
"Well, Mr. Şimşek, was there anyone holding your hand? Didn't you know that these manipulations were crimes? Why didn't you prevent it? After you said this, 500 billion lira of money was deposited into those 131 funds, where were you for God's sake? I am clearly calling from here under the umbrella of the Gazi Assembly: If you can't do it, walk away, if you don't know, walk away, if you can't do it, walk away. If someone grabbed your wrist, if someone prevented you, get up and expose them." "Just do it and leave again. In this situation, you can neither manage the economy of this country nor revive this country."
"RESEARCH PROPOSALS SHOULD BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY"
DEM Party Group Deputy Chairman Sezai Temelli noted that there is a great profiteering and robbery on Türkiye's agenda and said:
"We all know very well that it is not something that can be put under a sack, covered up or glossed over. We are really faced with a structural and institutional problem. If a crisis has emerged despite all these institutions, if such a plunder has emerged, it means that we are faced with a truly dire situation. Therefore, these investigation proposals should be taken seriously, many parties are giving them on this issue, it should be shared, and the government should also look favorably on this issue so that a healthy step can be taken about what should be done, but we do not see such an intention in the government."
"THE GOVERNMENT IS RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS EVENT"
Explaining that there was a loss of 100 billion dollars due to transactions in the capital markets, New Party Group Deputy Chairman Murat Emir said:
"At the end of these 25 days, we have not witnessed the dismissal of any of the CMB, nor the Ministry of Finance bureaucracy, nor the Banking Supervisory Board, nor the Stock Exchange Istanbul, nor those sons of the AKP who became rich, nor those supporters of the palace, nor a proper and effective investigation against any of them. We are still covering this issue with threats, evasions, access barriers, intimidation, silencing, intimidation efforts, efforts to imprison journalists and place them under house arrest." "They think it can be covered up. There is a profiteering of over 20 billion dollars, the total cost to the economy is over 100 billion dollars, and there is a political power that has not actually done anything for 25 days. Because the political power is in the middle of this incident, in cooperation with its political staff, bureaucratic staff and those thieves who carried out this profiteering."
"WE WILL HOLD TO ACCOUNT ANYONE WHO GOES OUTSIDE THE LEGITIMATE BORDERS OF THE LAW"
AK Party Group Deputy Chairman Abdulhamit Akbaşoğlu stated that they are making intense efforts to resolve the funding issue quickly, that the relevant institutions are taking positive steps and preparing a bill. Expressing that the investigations on the judiciary side continue meticulously and in depth, Akbaşoğlu said:
"Our first priority right now is to ensure that this process is transparent and fair, without using public resources, and to protect our nation's rights and laws. Our red line is that anyone who has earned exorbitant income or gained unfair advantage through speculation or manipulation will definitely pay the price. Others may protect robbers, those who seize the nation's property, those who engage in haram, just because of their affiliation to a political party, they may take them under their wing, they may travel from city to city and organize rallies for them. We are not like them. "Such a situation can never happen neither in our style of politics nor in our understanding of state administration. No matter who goes beyond the legitimate boundaries of the law, whether from the government or the opposition, we will definitely hold them accountable for this."
"I NEED SIMPLE ANSWERS"
Then, New Party Group Deputy Chairman Murat Emir took the floor due to the taunting. Emir said:
"We are asking simple questions, we need simple answers. 25 days have passed. Who are these 217 privileged investors, that is, the real thief? Why are you hiding it? How many billions of liras did they earn? How did they smuggle these billions of liras abroad and into the country? And we are asking the answers to all these questions on behalf of this nation. Last week, Özlem Zengin was sitting here and said, 'I am waiting for it to be announced.' Why don't you explain it, what do you think? This has nothing to do with stigma."
"WE DO NOT STAND BEHIND ANY THEFT"
AK Party Group Deputy Chairman Muhammet Emin Akbaşoğlu responded to the words of New Party member Emir as follows:
"I stated this very clearly: We said that we will hold accountable anyone who is involved in injustice and lawlessness, whether from the AK Party or the opposition. We are not like others, we do not stand behind any theft or shamelessness; I said very clearly and distinctly that we do not stand behind thieves, shameless or corrupt people in the open. Since you are offended by this, it means that you accept that you stand behind thieves, corrupt and shameless people. You are in Istanbul, the corruption of the century. "While the confessions about the İmamoğlu criminal organization in the Metropolitan Municipality are obvious, where are you in the matter? Are you against it or are you at the center of it?"
"WON'T WE ASK FOR 400 BILLION LIRAS?"
New Party MPs reacted to Akbaşoğlu's words. Then, İYİ Party Group Deputy Chairman Turhan Çömez took the floor. Çömez said:
"The real issue is this: Minister of Justice Mr. Gürlek made a statement and said, 'Fund profiteers took 401 billion liras in 16 days.' In other words, after the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office wrote this letter to the CMB, some people smuggled it abroad, and some people pocketed 400 billion liras, the rights of this nation; Shouldn't we ask about their rights? Do they have the right not to be stained? Those who robbed this country; Those who turned this country into an onion; Those who waste the rights of women, men, children and retirees into their pockets; "Won't we ask about these 400 billion liras taken by those who live in luxury and debauchery?"
"IF YOU DO NOT BEHIND YOUR 217 AMBITIOUS, YOU WILL COME OUT AND EXPLAIN"
While there was taunting among the MPs at the General Assembly, New Party Group Deputy Chairman Murat Emir used the following statements:
"Mr. Akbaşoğlu and AKP politics are trying to attack and throw mud instead of answering these simple questions we ask on behalf of the nation, but in vain. Let's say it in advance: we are against keeping our mayors and staff in prison by making a coup against democracy, through slander, without any concrete evidence, while not a single embezzled penny has been found, we are against their being tried in detention, we are behind them like a door, but if you, those thieves, who took those 400 billion liras "If you are not behind 217 thieves, you can come forward and explain."
GENERAL ASSEMBLY CLOSED
We moved on to the section on the proposals submitted by political party groups to the Presidency of the Turkish Grand National Assembly. In this section, during the proposal submitted by the New Party group titled 'Examining CMB's permit, audit, investment and liquidation decisions, determining possible interest relationships and responsibilities of public officials', Group Deputy Chairman Murat Emir requested a roll call. In the first poll, the quorum for the meeting was not found.
According to DHA, Deputy Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey Yusuf Beyazıt closed the meeting to meet at 14.00 today after the majority could not be achieved in the second poll held after the break.
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