34 MPs submit single-question motion to Akın Gürlek: How many bosses have been arrested or convicted?

34 members of parliament from opposition parties have submitted a written parliamentary question to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) for Minister of Justice Akın Gürlek to answer regarding the remarks that served as the grounds for the arrest of BİRTEK-SEN General President Mehmet Türkmen.

The motion posed the question: “How many bosses have been subject to investigations, taken into custody, arrested, or convicted in Gaziantep over the last 5 years due to workplace accidents, workplace homicides, occupational diseases, or the obstruction of trade union rights?”

Following the use of Türkmen’s remarks—in which he stated that bosses are not held accountable for workers who lose their lives in workplace accidents and homicides—as grounds for the accusation of “publicly spreading misleading information,” 34 MPs from various political parties submitted a single-question written motion to Minister of Justice Akın Gürlek, asking: “How many bosses have been subject to investigations, taken into custody, arrested, or convicted in Gaziantep over the last 5 years due to workplace accidents, workplace homicides, occupational diseases, or the obstruction of trade union rights?”

The MPs who signed the motion are as follows:

DEM Party Diyarbakır MP Adalet Kaya, TİP Istanbul MP Ahmet Şık, DEM Party Mardin MP Beritan Güneş, DEM Party İzmir MP Burcugül Çubuk, CHP Aydın MP Bülent Tezcan, DEM Party Istanbul MP Celal Fırat, TİP Istanbul MP Erkan Baş, CHP İzmir MP Gökçe Gökçen, CHP Istanbul MP Gökhan Günaydın, DEM Party Van MP Gülcan Kaçmaz, CHP Denizli MP Gülizar Biçer Karaca, DEM Party Ağrı MP Heval Bozdağ, DEM Party İzmir MP İbrahim Akın, EMEP Istanbul MP İskender Bayhan, DEM Party Istanbul MP Keziban Konukçu, DEM Party Erzurum MP Meral Danış Beştaş, CHP Antalya MP Mustafa Erdem, DEM Party Şırnak MP Nevroz Uysal, CHP Bursa MP Orhan Sarıbal, DEM Party Kocaeli MP Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, DEM Party Istanbul MP Özgül Saki, CHP Istanbul MP Özgür Karabat, DEM Party Mersin MP Perihan Koca, TİP Istanbul MP Sera Kadıgil, EMEP Gaziantep MP Sevda Karaca, DEM Party Diyarbakır MP Sevilay Çelenk, DEM Party Van MP Sinan Çiftyürek, CHP Rize MP Tahsin Ocaklı, CHP Istanbul MP Yunus Emre, DEM Party Şırnak MP Zeki İrmez, DEM Party Van MP Zülküf Uçar.

Additionally, DEM Party MP Dilan Kunt, CHP Ankara MP Okan Konuralp, and CHP Deputy Chairman and Sivas MP Ulaş Karasu supported the opposition to Türkmen’s arrest by submitting separate motions to Minister Gürlek.

News Source: 12punto