Questions from journalists on the plane are determined hours in advance: Faruk Bildirici reveals

A striking piece of information has emerged regarding the questions posed to AKP Chairman and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan by the journalists accompanying him on his plane upon his return from his US visit. 

Faruk Bildirici stated, "The journalists on the plane claimed that they determined the questions themselves, but if the Directorate of Communications is not handing them prepared questions, how did these questions reach me hours in advance? I hope the Directorate of Communications or the Presidency has an explanation for this.

Moreover, the questions asked are very incomplete. Can you imagine, new agreements have been signed with the US in the field of energy, there have been calls not to buy oil and natural gas from Russia, and an agreement has been signed for the purchase of Boeing aircraft! Yet the journalists on the plane did not ask about these... Let alone all that, wouldn't a journalist even ask what happened in the meeting with Trump regarding the F-35s?"

"THE QUESTIONS ASKED ARE ALREADY VERY INCOMPLETE"

Bildirici's remarks on the social media platform X regarding the subject are as follows: 

"Is there an explanation for this? At the hours when President Erdoğan's plane was preparing to take off from Washington, the list of questions that the journalists would ask on the plane reached me. Furthermore, the name of who would ask which question was written under the questions. It was 22:10 Turkish time when the questions arrived. I shared these questions with two other journalist friends last night and early this morning, hours before the conversation with Erdoğan was released, so that they could bear witness.

After the questions asked to Erdoğan and his answers were sent to the media by the Directorate of Communications, I compared them with the text I had! Indeed, the questions that reached me hours ago—even if not word for word—were asked to Erdoğan in the same way. Even the order of the questions matched. Although the journalists on the plane have previously claimed that they determined the questions themselves, if the Directorate of Communications is not handing them prepared questions, how did these questions reach me hours in advance? I hope the Directorate of Communications or the Presidency has an explanation for this.

Moreover, the questions asked are very incomplete. Can you imagine, new agreements have been signed with the US in the field of energy, there have been calls not to buy oil and natural gas from Russia, and an agreement has been signed for the purchase of Boeing aircraft! Yet the journalists on the plane did not ask about these... Let alone all that, wouldn't a journalist even ask what happened in the meeting with Trump regarding the F-35s?"