Workers' Party of Turkey (TİP) Istanbul MP Ahmet Şık’s wife Yonca Verdioğlu Şık has been detained. Taken from her home as part of an investigation conducted on charges of "political or military espionage," Şık underwent a medical examination.
It was reported that after the medical examination, Yonca Verdioğlu Şık was taken to the Istanbul Courthouse, where her statement will be taken by the prosecutor's office.
FIRST STATEMENT FROM TİP: FIRST THE THREAT, THEN THE ORDER CAME
Following the detention of Yonca Verdioğlu Şık, the Workers' Party of Turkey (TİP) issued a statement.
The statement from TİP is as follows:
"FIRST THE THREAT, THEN THE ORDER CAME
Our MP Ahmet Şık's wife Yonca Şık has been detained.
Our Istanbul MP Ahmet Şık's wife Yonca Şık was detained at their home in Istanbul.
Our MP Şık, who has been following the "Fund Robbery" file—which includes AKP officials and has been proven to involve the theft of the savings of millions of our citizens—and who, in addition to constantly informing the public, has submitted parliamentary questions to AKP ministers, has received many threats until now to stop his work and close the Fund Robbery file.
Our Chairman Erkan Baş disclosed the latest threat received by our MP Şık at yesterday's Ministry of Justice Budget Commission Meeting; he announced that relatives of Minister of Justice Akın Gürlek had conveyed threats targeting the safety of our MP Şık's family and friends. Minister Gürlek, who has not responded to any of the allegations against him, also did not make a statement regarding the threats disclosed by our Chairman.
It is understood that Minister Gürlek has given the order to the judiciary and law enforcement forces under his command to take action. We not only condemn the detention of our Istanbul MP Ahmet Şık's wife Yonca Şık on a fabricated claim that has no relevance or justification, but we also see it as a clear act of immorality resorted to by this mafia order, which recognizes no political ethics or social conscience, in order to escape the desperation it has fallen into.
We invite all politicians and officials, primarily the Presidency of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM), to take immediate action against this unlawful and immoral attack directed at our MP Ahmet Şık's dear wife Yonca Şık, and to warn and stop in the harshest manner those who trample our country's justice and security authorities to protect their own personal interests.
We call on all our people, our friends in the press, and our comrades to join the justice vigil we will start at the Çağlayan Courthouse to show solidarity with our friend Yonca Şık.
Our word to those who try to cover up their theft with impudence and their injustice with lawlessness is clear: You cannot scare us with detentions, sham courts, lies, slander, and threats. We are stronger, braver, and more numerous than the fund thieves!
You will go, we will remain! We will get our friend Yonca Şık back.
WORKERS' PARTY OF TURKEY"
News Source: 12punto
