Drank water at the parliamentary podium! Responded sharply to 'Ramadan' remark: 'I am paying my fidya'
İYİ Party Bursa Deputy Yüksel Selçuk Türkoğlu responded sharply to a warning from the floor saying, We are in the month of Ramadan, I think you forgot, while he was drinking water at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) General Assembly. Türkoğlu stated that he is a diabetic, is not fasting, and is paying his fidya (expiation for missed fasts).
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İYİ Party Bursa Deputy Yüksel Selçuk Türkoğlu drank water at the podium while addressing deputies in the General Assembly. At that moment, a warning was shouted from the parliamentary benches: "We are in the month of Ramadan, I think you forgot." Türkoğlu responded sharply to these warnings, saying, "I am a diabetic. I did not forget. I am paying my fidya."
İYİ Party Bursa Deputy Yüksel Selçuk Türkoğlu, who drank water while addressing deputies at the TBMM General Assembly, stated that he is a diabetic and is not fasting in response to the voices rising from the hall.
"I AM NOT FASTING, I AM PAYING MY FIDYA"
As shouts of "You forgot, you forgot" rose from the General Assembly, Türkoğlu stated that he was not fasting and added, "I am a diabetic. I did not forget. I am paying my fidya. And I am not paying it at 180 liras because that is not enough."