AKP member Fatma Şahin's luxury vehicle fleet: 63 luxury vehicles rented just before the austerity package was announced!
It has emerged that companies affiliated with the Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality, led by AKP member Fatma Şahin, rented 63 luxury vehicles shortly before the Public Austerity Package announced by Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek.
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Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz and Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek announced the details of the long-awaited 'Public Austerity Package' at the Presidential Palace yesterday.
While it was announced that restrictions would be placed on luxury vehicles and rentals as part of the package, it was revealed that companies affiliated with the Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality, led by AKP member Fatma Şahin, have essentially a VIP vehicle fleet.
According to a report by Deniz Ayhan from Sözcü; 6 of the municipality's 9 subsidiaries rented 63 vehicles in 2024. Most recently, Gazi Konut İnşaat rented 15 vehicles, including 4 D-segment vehicles and 1 VIP minibus, for 11 months on April 29, paying 4 million 983 thousand TL. Gazi Danışmanlık Müşavirlik rented 23 vehicles, including 1 VIP minibus and 1 armored SUV, for 11 months on April 29 for 7 million 131 thousand TL. Gazi Bilişim ve Akıllı Kent Teknolojileri rented 13 vehicles for 12 months on April 1. The fleet included 1 VIP vehicle. A total of 5 million 930 thousand 400 TL was paid.
Gazi Kültür Sanat Ürünleri Şirketi rented 10 vehicles, one of which was a VIP minibus, for 12 months on March 1 for 4 million 268 thousand 400 TL. Enerji Anonim Şirketi rented 12 vehicles for 11 months and signed a contract for 4 million 56 thousand 600 TL on March 19. The vehicles included 1 M-segment VIP vehicle. Gazi Ağaç Peyzaj ve Hayvanat Bahçesi İşletmeciliği announced on March 11 that 30 vehicles would be rented, but the tender has not yet been concluded.
TENDERS GO TO AKP CANDIDATE
In all of the vehicle tenders, the company contracted was Yılda Özel Eğitim Taşımacılık ve Temizlik Hizmetleri, owned by Memik Yılmaz, who was an AKP mayoral candidate nominee for Oğuzeli in 2019.
The same organization had previously won vehicle rental tenders worth 47 million 292 thousand 405 liras on October 2, 2023, and 31 million 943 thousand liras in 2020. Yılmaz, who was not nominated by the AKP in 2019, was a candidate nominee from the MHP in the 2024 local elections but was not nominated.