CHP members hang 20-meter banner in city square
In Balıkesir, the CHP Provincial Administration prepared a 20-meter banner targeting AKP Mayor Yücel Yılmaz. The banner, hung in the city square, features the phrase "Yücel Yılmaz sold Balıkesir off parcel by parcel" and lists land sales in Balıkesir by year.
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A high-profile protest by the Balıkesir CHP administration. They targeted AKP's Yücel Yılmaz with a 20-meter banner hung in the city square. The eye-catching banner features the phrase, "Yücel Yılmaz sold Balıkesir off parcel by parcel."
CHP Provincial Chairman Erden Köybaşı, who led the protest, made a statement to the press under the banner.
Erden stated the following:
We have come together with you to announce how Balıkesir was sold off parcel by parcel. The banner is 20 meters long. It barely fit into 20 meters. As seen on the banners, in 4.5 years, they sold off and disposed of 102 valuable plots of land that belong to all of us for a pittance. So, what happened to the 82 million dollars obtained from these sales? Where did the 2 billion 630 million [lira] at today's exchange rate go?
“YOU DOUBLED THE DEBT”
We are asking this: you sold the real estate, but did you pay off the metropolitan municipality's debt? Of course not.
You sold the land, and you can explain the amount of the loans you used yourselves now. You both sold Balıkesir's land and doubled the debt.