Fund crisis protest from TİP in front of SDIF: "500 thousand people are victims"

Turkish Workers' Party (TİP) held a press statement regarding the fund crisis in front of the Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) Headquarters in Şişli, Istanbul.

“Hundreds of thousands lost, to whom did the billions go?” Party members opened the banner and shouted slogans reacting to the government.

SEYHAN: “500 THOUSAND PEOPLE ARE VICTIMS”

TİP Istanbul Provincial Chairman Furkan Seyhan stated that the country's agenda has changed rapidly in recent weeks and touched upon the funding crisis, as well as security problems in schools, femicide and the protests in front of the Constitutional Court.

Claiming that 500 thousand people were victims of the funding crisis, Seyhan made claims regarding political and bureaucratic responsibility.

Seyhan said, "One of them is a member of AKP MKYK, Akın Gürlek is in charge, and Akın Gürlek's wife is in control. We are facing a state and those who gather all the resources of the state behind them are ruling this state as a gang."

“WE WILL NOT FORGET THE IMAGE OF THAT MINER CHILD CRYING BY HIS FATHER”

Seyhan also criticized the inequality of income and opportunity based on the mine workers who lost their lives in Soma.

Seyhan said:

"No one should forget an image. We murdered 5 miners in Soma. We will not forget the image of that miner child crying over his father at the funeral yesterday.

There are those who are ranked first in LGS by using the state's resources, and on the other hand, there is the miner's child who cries because he will spend his life without a father because his father was killed while working to avoid needing his family and children.

Let's not normalize this. Today's fight is the fight of these two children. "We are obliged to voice that miner boy's fight in the loudest voice."

“WHO LEFT THE FUND WITHOUT HARM?”

In the press release read after Seyhan's speech, questions were asked regarding the transactions alleged to have been carried out just before the liquidation of the funds.

In the statement, "Who are the 700 people who sold 200 billion TL at the same time 2 days before 131 funds went into liquidation? Those with an average of 300 million per person came out of this fund with profits without any damage. Who are they?" It was said.

While TİP argued that the savings of hundreds of thousands of citizens were damaged, it also claimed that the government had political responsibility through AKP Deputy Chairman Nihat Zeybekci.

CALL FOR RESIGNATION AND INVESTIGATION FROM TİP

In TİP's statement, the resignation of Minister of Justice Akın Gürlek, as well as CMB, Borsa Istanbul, Takasbank and Central Registry Agency executives was requested.

The party also demanded a judicial investigation against those responsible, the establishment of an investigation commission in the Turkish Grand National Assembly to investigate the funding crisis, and an investigation against AKP Deputy Chairman Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya, who resigned from her post, and other politicians and bureaucrats whose names were mentioned in the file.

Disclosure of CMB transactions, sharing the assets of current and former MPs and ministers with the public, and covering the losses of Katılımevim victims from confiscated assets and blocked amounts were also listed among the demands.

“IT WILL TAKE FOR YEARS TO CLEAN”

In TIP's statement, the following statements were used regarding the government: