Özgür Özel reacts to AKP's Leyla Şahin Usta: 'Shame on those who keep this woman in office!'

Republican People's Party (CHP) Chairman Özgür Özel made statements regarding the agenda at his party's parliamentary group meeting.

Highlights from Özel's speech:

In a moment, we will hold a group meeting that is almost exclusively dedicated to retirees, where we will discuss the entire issue comprehensively and at length, along with our proposed solutions. However, on the other hand, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) is also holding group meetings, using technological resources, and while the country's President comes here to act as the chairman of a party, there is a language that slanders and insults a party like the CHP, turning back on its own actions and blaming the CHP. I told Mr. Erdoğan: If you hear what you do not deserve, you will hear what you do deserve...

When it is done to Erdoğan, seeking support from abroad is considered legitimate; when we call it a coup when it is done to Ekrem İmamoğlu, they say we are complaining about Turkey to the world. I told my sister parties in Europe that what is happening in Turkey is a judicial coup. I told them to explain this correctly in your countries and invite Erdoğan to democracy. I also explained it to China's newspaper with a circulation of 8 million. It is a coup carried out in Turkey, and we will not surrender to it.

"WE WILL NOT SURRENDER TO THIS COUP"

Let those who hear tell those who do not; let those who see tell those who do not. When it is done to Erdoğan, going abroad to seek support is legitimate; when we say that what is being done to the Republican People's Party and Ekrem İmamoğlu is not an anti-corruption operation in Turkey, but a coup carried out by the judiciary, a coup by the current President against the future President, and by the current government using its power today against the future ruling party, they say we are complaining to them.

In the past, who complained about Turkey, took Turkey to court, and demanded compensation... Who? For example, I did not go and ask the British or the Americans to make a statement condemning Turkey, and then come here and make it a headline in the newspapers. I told my sister parties in Europe: "This is a judicial coup in Turkey; explain this correctly in your countries. Do not see Erdoğan as someone to be bargained with due to security concerns, but as a political interlocutor who should be invited to the ground of democracy." And I continue to say so.

If there is a radio station at the other end of the world broadcasting to 50 people, I will explain it to them too. What is being done in Turkey is a coup, and we will not surrender to this coup.

"ERDOĞAN BILLED THE CHP FOR THE ANTI-AMERICANISM THAT ANGERED WASHINGTON"

Now let's come to... It was there a moment ago, but one of the flagships of the Turkish press before history is Milliyet. Full headline. June 6, 2005. While Erdoğan was flying to the US, he took a clear stance against anti-Americanism. "It is a misfortune that the Republican People's Party is anti-American." Erdoğan billed the CHP for the anti-Americanism that angered Washington. "This did not emerge for the first time; it is a misfortune that the main opposition is also on this line," he said.

"IT IS A SHAME FOR YOU, A BADGE OF HONOR FOR US"

Erdoğan; this is what shows his state that day and his state today... This is what shows his situation that day and his situation today, which you have engraved in golden letters before history; it is a shame for you, and a badge of honor for us. A badge of honor for us.

"THE ENTIRE PARTY, STARTING WITH ERDOĞAN, SIGNS OFF ON THAT SHAMEFUL REMARK"

Furthermore, we are still waiting. Last week in Parliament, the AKP's Deputy Group Chairman, who speaks there on behalf of the Justice and Development Party, the most authorized person in that session on behalf of the party, stood up and said; supposedly to criticize us, "Those who did not speak up while Muslims were dying in Syria are now talking because there is an Alevi massacre," she said.

Friends, our Deputy Group Chairman noticed this and with great political maturity said: "Correct this. Because a word that comes out of the mouth sometimes goes to an unexpected place." He turned and said: "You are saying something wrong, correct this." The lady did not correct it; she resisted.

Now, throughout Turkey, regarding this issue that hurts our Alevi fellow citizens, the Justice and Development Party says, "No, I stand by it," despite our warnings. It is a strange thing that does not count Alevis as Muslims, legitimizes the Alevi massacre in Syria while trying to slander the Republican People's Party, and has no side to hold onto. And yesterday, Ömer Çelik appeared on television; you expect a correction on behalf of the party, and he is spinning nonsensical words. He is trying to get something out of one or one-and-a-half-month-old polemics.

If you continue to keep this lady in office, the entire party, starting with Erdoğan, signs off on that shameful remark. Starting with Erdoğan!

"ERDOĞAN, WHO PROMISED A MANDATE FOR THE IRAQ OPERATION"

Oh, and let me tell that lady; "Not speaking up while Muslim blood is being shed" and so on... God forbid, shame on anyone who says such a thing... March 1, 2003. Erdoğan, that pro-American Erdoğan, the Erdoğan who said "The CHP is anti-American, it is a misfortune"; the Erdoğan who went to America and gave a pledge of allegiance before coming to power, while he was the chairman of his party... The Erdoğan who promised a mandate for the Iraq operation in return...

"THE AK PARTY MP AND THE ENTIRE REPUBLICAN PEOPLE'S PARTY GROUP VOTED AND PREVENTED IT"

On March 1, in a closed session, the 22nd Term Group of the Republican People's Party struggled to prevent American soldiers from coming from the Port of Mersin and conducting a ground operation through our border into Iraq for the Iraq operation. 99 AK Party MPs voted with us that day, preventing that mandate from passing; preventing American boots from stepping into Mersin and polluting the Southeast, preventing the shedding of 1.5 million Muslim lives in Iraq, and preventing participation in this shame. The 99 AK Party MPs of that day and the entire Republican People's Party group voted and prevented it.

"WE PROTECT THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF THE TURKISH NATION TO THE END"

He did not politically sustain even one of those 99; he destroyed them all. He destroyed them all. Now, I commemorate all our deputies who lived through the 22nd Term with respect, and those who are no longer alive with mercy, and we say: We protect the rights and interests of Turkey, the Republic of Turkey, and the Turkish nation against all kinds of imperialist and dirty games of America to the end. You can keep the pro-Americanism for yourself!

"YOU ARE THE CO-CHAIR OF THE Greater Middle East Project (BOP)"

Because, because I am the chairman of the party founded by Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who cleared the homeland of seven different occupying armies through an anti-imperialist struggle; you are the co-chair of the BOP! You boast about this.

"IT IS DRAGGING INTO LARGE AND INSOLUBLE CRISES DUE TO MULTIPLE OFFICE DISORDER"

Since 2018, Turkey has been dragged into large and insoluble crises due to the multiple office disorder of someone who now gathers all powers within himself, unfortunately appoints a governor in the morning and a provincial chairman in the afternoon with the same fountain pen and the same ink, appoints a district governor and a district chairman with the same ink, and acts as both the chairman of a party and the President.

"PRICE HIKES ON EVERYTHING HAVE BROKEN ALL OUR BACKS"

We are in an economic crisis that has not ended since the one-man regime began. Along with this, the judicial crisis, social crises; each one hurts this country separately. Today, while minimum wage earners, retirees, and farmers are experiencing their most indebted period in history, high interest rates, high inflation, and price hikes on everything have broken all our backs.

"ONE MUST SEE THE DISTANCE THAT HAS GROWN BETWEEN THE AK PARTY AND THE NATION"

The AK Party has neither the staff, nor the skill, nor the energy to solve these problems. There is no such possibility anymore. Therefore, one must see the distance that has grown between the AK Party and the nation. And while the Republican People's Party conducts real politics in the squares, on the streets, and by the side of the citizens; it watches with shame the politics produced by those who engage in polemics in warm halls in winter and cool halls in summer.

"THE MAN IS GOING TO EXHIBIT THE GOLDEN PLATES HE RECEIVED FROM THE EMIR OF QATAR"

While the nation is in this state, Erdoğan is in a completely different world. He made a speech the other day, the note came to me, I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe it. "This poor man," he says, "has a museum in Istanbul." Which poor man? Erdoğan is poor? He bought a place in Istanbul, it was in ruins, he is having it renovated... He is going to make a museum there and exhibit the gifts given to him. The retiree in this hall has no food to put on their plate, and the man is going to exhibit the golden plates he received from the Emir of Qatar.

"A PRESIDENT DOES NOT HAVE A MUSEUM, MY BROTHER"

And he says, and he says; he will exhibit the golden plate he received from the Sheikh of Qatar, he will exhibit the gifts given to him. "I am poor," he says. "This poor man," he says, "will now have a museum." Who are you? You are the President. A President does not have a museum, my brother. Does Atatürk have a museum? Does İnönü have a museum? Which President has a museum? Whatever is given to the President stays in the state's museum, in the state's museum!

"YOU CONTINUE TO OPEN A MUSEUM IN KASIMPAŞA, WE CONTINUE TO SERVE THAT KASIMPAŞA LIKE LIONS"

He is reporting himself. We begged and begged to pass a political ethics law. When Mr. Davutoğlu supported this, he made the greatest confession in history by saying, "We won't have a provincial chairman or a district chairman left to do politics." Mr. Davutoğlu said, "If my brother committed theft, I would cut off his arm," and this statement started the political operation against Mr. Davutoğlu. Saying "Not a thousand Alis to Binali Yıldırım..." and gathering signatures, saying "We will bring down Davutoğlu," resisting the political ethics law; if that ethics law were passed, the gift to be given to a deputy is clear, the gift to be given to the President is clear, what amount is subject to registration, which one is put in the state's museum, it is all clear. He didn't do these, and now "this poor man is going to open a museum in Kasımpaşa." By God, you continue to open a museum in Kasımpaşa, we continue to serve that Kasımpaşa like lions, with the Beyoğlu Municipality, with the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality.

"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, YOU KASIMPAŞALI?"

We are opening retiree houses in Kasımpaşa. We are opening retiree clubs in Kasımpaşa. We are putting water dispensers in schools in Kasımpaşa so that while the rich child drinks water to their heart's content, the poor child in Kasımpaşa does not have to put their mouth to the tap in the school toilet. What are you talking about, you Kasımpaşalı?

"HE FORGOT THE WORD RETIREE, HE DOES NOT MENTION IT"

Mr. Erdoğan forgot one word. One word. I said, "Scan backwards," it's not there. Which word? Retiree. He forgot the word retiree, he does not mention the word retiree. He has erased it from his dictionary. For him, there is no retiree, no minimum wage earner. But we will not leave the poor of this country to their mercy. We will discuss all troubles, problems, and solutions separately. Today, there are retirees in this hall who represent all retirees in Turkey, who took action when our group decided not to leave Parliament, who supported this activism, and who ran here today. As the Republican People's Party, we bow before all of you with respect and reverence.

"WE WILL FIGHT FOR YOU TO THE END"

Retirees are shouting in the group hall, "We are retirees, we are right, we will win," raising their voices. As the child of two retirees, as the chairman of the party that was created by your labor, the party where not a single penny has passed through the throat of its chairman other than the salary a civil servant receives, the salary a retiree receives, and the medicine bills paid by the state through the contract made with the Social Security Institution, and every penny that passed through the throat of his child was the labor of this state, I say: Your struggle for dignity is the dignity of us all! We will fight for you to the end.

"THEY DID IT BY PLANNING"

Now let's remember briefly. We say it, they get angry, they will continue to get angry. The Justice and Development Party is the enemy of the retiree.

It is the enemy of the retiree, the friend of the rich. When they arrived, their first word, their first words were: We will not give the retiree a share of the national income, because they defined the retiree as those who do not increase but decrease the national income, and they systematically, decisively, and by planning, decided not to give a share of growth.

"THE LOWEST RETIREE SALARY WAS 1.5 TIMES THE MINIMUM WAGE"

When they arrived, the lowest retiree salary was 1.5 times the minimum wage. Today, the minimum wage that we do not like and object to is 28,000 liras. 1.5 times the minimum wage is 42,000 liras. Everyone in this hall knows that if the AKP had not come, if it had not interfered with the retiree, if it had not been the enemy of the retiree, if it had not been the owner of the shame that retirees are elements that decrease rather than contribute to the national income, today we would be receiving at least 42,000 liras, which is 1.5 times the minimum wage we do not like.

The lowest retiree salary that this country ended in the triple coalition period, which the late Ecevit, the late Mesut Yılmaz, and Mr. Devlet Bahçeli did not like and criticized at every opportunity, was 1.5 times the minimum wage. Today, 42,000 liras is the amount that today's minimum wage earner should be receiving. We, as the Republican People's Party, are working on these in every aspect.

"THE GOLD CALCULATION IN ANATOLIA NEVER FAILS"

I say it, he gets angry. He says, "He has gone out and is touring Anatolia, going from jeweler to jeweler, doing gold calculations." He says, "Leave that calculation." He says, "Account for this." Why should I leave that calculation? Every calculation fails in Anatolia, the gold calculation never fails. You can explain as much as you want. Explain as much as you want. Go to Anatolia, ask my aunt, she does the calculation with the gold calculation.

"THE RETIREE'S LOSS IS 6 QUARTER GOLD COINS PER MONTH"

With the lowest retiree salary that the coalition they criticize over and over again, having come to power after the economic crisis of that coalition period, ended, 8 quarter gold coins could be bought. 8 quarter gold coins. Today, the retiree salary they give, they offer, does not buy 2 quarter gold coins. It does not buy 2 quarter gold coins. So the retiree's loss is 6 quarter gold coins per month. It's not a joke. It's not a joke. If a retiree today, if a retiree went and bought a quarter gold coin from a jeweler, and looked when they got home and it wasn't in their pocket, they would lose their mind, searching along the way, wondering where they dropped it. Isn't that so? But today, it's not one retiree, it's every retiree. Not one quarter gold coin, but 6 quarter gold coins. Not once, but every month they lose. Retirees should not mind, and all of Turkey should know this; if something is lost, it is found where it was lost. Since we lost 6 quarter gold coins every month in a ballot box, we will go and find it in the first ballot box!

"THOSE RECEIVING THE LOWEST RETIREE SALARY HAVE REACHED 5 MILLION PEOPLE"

Let me give another example of how misery grows. Just in July, this year in July, according to the state's official figures, the number of those receiving the lowest retiree salary was 3.7 million. Now it is 4.9 million. That is, in 6 months, 1.2 million more people were added to the category of those receiving the lowest retiree salary. Those receiving the lowest retiree salary have reached 5 million people.

We worked for both the minimum wage and retiree salaries based on such misery, and we made our proposal. We said that the minimum wage should be 39,000 liras, and the retiree salary should be one minimum wage. The lowest retiree salary should also be 39,000 liras. We worked, we prepared the source. We prepared the incentive package. We said that while giving a raise to the minimum wage, we must protect small tradesmen and certain sectors. We prepared the 10,000 lira, 5,000 lira, 4,000 lira SGK premium supports, we took them and showed them. They said we cannot do this.

"THEY HAVE BEEN THERE DAY AND NIGHT FOR 6 DAYS"

For the first time in history, the minimum wage was announced below the hunger threshold. On the day it was announced, the hunger threshold was 30,000 liras, it was announced as 28,000 liras. The retiree salary was also announced as 18,938 liras with the inflation difference. We couldn't believe it, we said such a thing cannot be. We evaluated it with our deputy group chairmen. I said, what are they doing? They are not doing anything. What are they discussing? They are discussing the Traffic Law. Will you not intervene? They said we are here, but the AKP will close and leave in a little while. We talked, our group, all together, unanimously, with great determination, decided to fight for the retirees, to draw attention to Parliament, and to keep watch in Parliament for the retirees. They have been there day and night for 6 days.

They put it on Turkey's agenda. The AKP, with indigestion, does not stop insulting our deputies. Actually, they cannot stand the fact that this issue is being brought to the agenda, discussed, and reported, that is, the oppression they are inflicting on you is being seen and heard more; they are having indigestion. Whether they burst or explode, we will continue to stand behind the retiree.

"BAHÇELİ CALLED THE WAGE GIVEN TO RETIREES A 'WAGE OF MISERY'"

And here is a major... Here is an important development, and for the retirees, for Turkish democracy, and for the reputation of Parliament; unfortunately, this freak system called the Presidential Government System put a palace between the nation and the state. That is why the nation has also cooled off from its own parliament. It does not expect anything from here. But today, in his speech, Mr. Bahçeli called the wage given to retirees a "wage of misery."

"YOU ARE NO LONGER A MINORITY IN PARLIAMENT, YOU ARE THE MAJORITY"

There is a huge, huge, huge opportunity here. This is the nation's parliament. The main opposition party is on watch 24/7. We are all here together. We will fight for the best improvement. They say let's give a thousand liras, as if giving a thousand liras of pocket money. They say let's make it 20 thousand. We will object to the end. However, however, the opportunity here is this, friends: The main opposition is in action. The DEM Party criticizes this as harshly as we do. The IYI Party, the Felicity Party, the DEVA Party, the Future Party, all of them object to this wage of misery and are making statements. And after the Nationalist Movement Party called this misery, I am saying something, retirees; if everyone stands behind their word with sincerity today, you are no longer a minority in this parliament, you are the majority, you are the majority!

"IF THEY BRING A GOOD PROPOSAL, OUR GROUP WILL RAISE BOTH HANDS AND VOTE"

From here, I present my respects to Mr. Bahçeli. I present my respects to all chairmen. If the Justice and Development Party brings a good proposal, our group will raise both hands and vote. If they don't bring it; this parliament is not the palace's clerk. Every party can submit separate proposals to this parliament. We can submit a joint proposal. All deputies can sign it. And since we call this 20 thousand liras misery, and since Mr. Bahçeli also called it a wage of misery today; let's bring it, let's equalize the retiree salary to the minimum wage, let's say it can never be below it, let's cast our votes, let's save the retiree, and let's save the reputation of the parliament.

"WE WILL CONTINUE BOTH TO RESIST, TO FIGHT, AND TO DIALOGUE"

There is an opportunity to hear the voice of the retiree who says "we want to live humanely" in this parliament and to take a historic step in this parliament. For this, our deputy group chairmen will meet with their counterparts, from all political parties. We will continue both to resist, to fight, and to dialogue.

"THE ARITHMETIC TO ELIMINATE THIS WAGE OF MISERY IS CLEAR"

It will come to the Planning and Budget Committee, it will be discussed on Thursday. We must fight for it to reach the best point in the Planning and Budget Committee. If everyone stands behind their word in the Planning and Budget Committee and in the Parliament General Assembly, the arithmetic to eliminate this wage of misery is clear.

"MANY THINGS WILL CHANGE IN TURKEY"

We think differently on other issues. We will argue again. Everyone can be with whoever they want in their own alliance. But if we are together on the retiree's issue, many things will change in Turkey, many things will change!

"THEY WILL SAY THERE IS NO MONEY FOR THE RETIREE'S 650 BILLION LIRAS"

By the way, the money, the source needed to make the lowest retiree salary one minimum wage for a retiree; 650 billion liras. 650 billion liras. The budget passed here the other day. They say we don't have such money, there is no source... There is an item in the budget; 768 billion liras. 768 billion liras. Do you know what its name is? Waived tax revenues. That is, they call it 'Tax Expenditure' in technical terms. Waived corporate tax. That is, they earned, they made a profit, they will pay tax; they put 768 billion in resources here so that they don't pay that tax, but now they will say there is no money, no source for the retiree's 650 billion liras.

"THEY WILL WORK UNTIL MORNING BUT THE RETIREE'S PROBLEM WILL BE SOLVED"

They are paying 2.7 trillion liras in interest. More than four times the money needed. Now they will come and say "there is none" when it comes to the retiree. We, as the Republican People's Party, will oppose this oppression imposed on the retiree to the end. The Planning and Budget Committee will sit, it will work. If necessary, there is the authority to transfer between items in the budget, if it saves, it will be found from there. If it doesn't save, an additional budget will be made. They will work until morning, but the retiree's problem will be solved.

"DO NOT EVEN GREET THOSE WHO DO NOT WORK FOR YOU ON THE STREET, LET ALONE VOTE FOR THEM"

If no contribution is made to the solution of this problem, if they resist this, if they speak differently from the group podiums and behave differently when it comes to voting; then the retirees will appreciate this too. Let me say this much, I am saying this for the Justice and Development Party; do the same to whoever stands against you. If we do it, do it to us too. Do not even greet those who do not see you, who do not hear you, who do not work for you on the street, let alone vote for them.

"THEY WOULD BE SAD IF IT RAINED AND MANSUR YAVAŞ'S DAMS FILLED UP"

You are in Ankara. This city has a Metropolitan Mayor. I will give the example from there. There are very similar practices in all our municipalities, but one of the best is Ankara. In Ankara, Mayor Mansur... You know, they have been dealing with water politics for days, water politics... I said in Denizli, I said: "They have gone out and are praying for it not to rain." There were those who believed, friends, there were those who believed. That is, there were those who believed this: "How do you know?" We know from what they do. They would be sad if it rained and Mayor Mansur's dams filled up. They would dance with joy if Ankara were left without water.

It is such a thing that, before this, in 2019, Erdoğan himself, in 2023, his Minister -one the first stage, one the second stage- said, "We built the Gerede system, we solved Ankara's water problem until 2050." Until 2050! I am their liar. They are at the head of the State Hydraulic Works, they manage it. And "Ankara's water problem is solved, give the water." Let Mansur Yavaş distribute it. Mansur Yavaş has taken all kinds of precautions in this regard.

While 235 million cubic meters of water came from the Gerede system in 2023, 119 million cubic meters in 2024, and 72 million cubic meters in 2025. And from May last year to this October, not 1 cubic meter of water came. 1 cubic meter! Now I turn around; if I say, "Oh Erdoğan, what happened to the Gerede system? Incompetent Erdoğan," by God, it would offend God. Why? While it is not raining, while there is a global drought, while the job of building dams in Turkey is the government's, while they have been in power for 23 years and have come to this state, while we still don't say anything about the drought and say let's all work together to solve the water problem; he turns around and says to Mansur Yavaş, "Incompetent, he left Ankara without water, etc.," and engages in water politics.

"WE WILL SOLVE IT IN POWER NEXT YEAR WITH THE AUTHORITY GIVEN BY THE NATION"

Mansur Yavaş took his precautions, he shared the figures with transparency. He also solved that problem. With God's permission, just as we solve every problem, we will solve the water problem in power next year, with the municipalities under the authority of the municipalities, with the authority given by the nation.

Now look at the issue between this Mansur Yavaş and these retirees. Mansur Yavaş, you know the AKP says "I will make 19 thousand 20, I will give a thousand liras"... They will make the whole parliament work, they will find a solution, they will give a thousand liras like giving pocket money to a child. Mansur Yavaş adds 2,677 liras to the salaries of poor retirees who should receive social assistance in Ankara every month from the municipality. He puts this money every month, 2,677 liras. He provides 1 kilogram of meat support 12 times a year. He pays their natural gas bills for 3 months in winter. He gives an additional 2,500 liras each during Ramadan and Eid al-Adha.

"THE PERSON RECEIVING SOCIAL ASSISTANCE WILL BE ABLE TO USE FREE TRANSPORTATION WITHIN ANKARA METROPOLITAN BORDERS FROM NOW ON"

While doing these, they are standing over him with hundreds of inspectors. Today, Mr. Mansur said: "Announce this, let our Chairman announce this." We also have a majority in Parliament next week, there is no possibility of us not passing it. The Ankara Metropolitan Municipal Council will make a decision; 375 thousand people receiving social assistance will be able to use free transportation within the Ankara Metropolitan borders from now on. Free! 375 thousand people.

"THEY QUIETLY REDUCED THE STATE CONTRIBUTION TO 20 PERCENT"

While we are giving this struggle with the limited means of the municipalities that are being shaken -I will talk about other examples in a moment-; we are facing a government that destroys what it did in the past with the power it has and breaks its promise. The government that is miserable to its retirees today has now hooked the retirees of tomorrow. You know, they had introduced the Private Pension System (BES), they had said we will encourage it. They had said we are increasing the state contribution to 30 percent to spread BES to the base. They quietly reduced the state contribution to 20 percent. The nation believed them and entered BES. They said "30 percent state contribution," now they reduced it to 20 percent. In this way, with a 10 percent reduction, they are trying to create resources for the jobs they need themselves from somewhere.

"THESE ANXIETIES ARE ALSO THE MOST CRUEL BIRTH CONTROL METHOD THAT REDUCES THE FERTILITY RATE THE MOST IN TURKEY"

But people have gone far beyond the point of saying "If I study, I will find a job, if I work, I will earn enough for my family, from now on I will take care of my family somehow." Mr. Erdoğan used to say "Have 3 children, have 5 children." Currently, the fertility rate in Turkey has fallen below 1.5. This is a huge threat. However, there is one reason; that is poverty. That is the anxiety about the future. That is "How can I have a child with this minimum wage, or even how can I get married? I got married, I had a child, how can I raise them, how can I feed them?" These anxieties are also the most cruel birth control method that reduces the fertility rate the most in Turkey.

"THOSE WHO DO NOT HAVE MONEY PAY 30 PERCENT TAX ON THE MONEY THEY PAY"

Poverty, misery unfortunately pushes our people to gambling, virtual betting. It is such a thing; you sit and say "Oh, let him not play either." It is not like that. There is a credit card, the salary they receive ends in 10 days. Or the Overdraft Account (KMH) in the salary account. The easiest account to open. They open it immediately without asking. 5 thousand liras, 10 thousand liras overdraft account on the card where you withdraw your salary... When the salary ends, it automatically goes into the negative. As soon as the salary is deposited, it closes automatically.

They cut the most cruel interest in Turkey from such a guaranteed collection account, just as it is applied to credit card debts. They also cut 30 percent tax. In Turkey, those who have money, who put it in interest, pay 17.5 percent tax on the interest they receive; those who do not have money, who are drowning in debt, pay 30 percent tax on the money they pay!

"THE AK PARTY'S BLACK ORDER HITS THOSE WHO FALL ON THE GROUND"

Today, the credit card... Now the salary is not enough, but bread will be bought for the house, milk will be bought for the child, diapers will be bought, electricity bills will be paid, natural gas will be paid... He makes them charge it to the card or takes it from the overdraft account. The annual compound -the nation doesn't know- tax, interest, whatever, totals 96 percent. 96 percent annually! The most cruel... That is, the brave hits from the front, a traitor hits from behind; this black order of the AK Party hits those who fall on the ground while they are on the ground.

"THEY DID THIS EVIL TO THE YOUTH TO BEFRIEND TRUMP"

They brought the business to such a point that, previously a 250 lira case was there, it is sold for 600 liras in Turkey. They closed that order, the price of the case in Turkey went up to 3,000 liras. They are busy with such strange things. To tell the truth; why did he do this then? Why did he do it? What is the benefit? It has no benefit to you or me, it has a benefit to Trump. He promised Trump. "I will put a tax on Chinese goods, I will remove the tax on American goods." He did it the night he went to America. Also, since almost all of these products came from China and Chinese companies, and since this business was to close in Trump's China isolation idea, they did this evil to the youth just to please Trump, just to befriend Trump. All the children are in rebellion.

"THEY BOUGHT THAT WORLD LEADER FROM TEMU"

By God, I am the liar of the youth. He did this just to please Trump, and he says "Our world leader," supposedly a world leader... They say they bought that world leader from Temu. The world leader bought from Temu is closing the children's connection with the world. Just to please Trump."

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