CHP Deputy Chairman Deniz Yavuzyılmaz continues to make striking claims regarding highways.
The CHP official made a statement on his social media account regarding allegations about the privatization of the Izmir-Aydın Highway.
'A 400% HIKE IS EXPECTED'
Yavuzyılmaz stated the following:
Attention to all our citizens! Especially those living in or traveling through Izmir and Aydın! One of the public-operated highways that the AKP plans to privatize for 25 years is the KGM Izmir-Aydın Highway! Route: Izmir-Aydın. Length: 99 km. Toll: 73 TL. If this privatization plan goes through, the vehicle toll is expected to rise to 365 TL, which means a 400% hike.
So how? As of 2026, the vehicle toll on the public-operated KGM Izmir-Aydın Highway in the 2nd Regional Directorate of Highways is 0.74 TL per kilometer. The vehicle toll for the Aydın-Denizli Highway, located in the same highway region and operated by crony companies under the Build-Operate-Transfer model, is 3.57 TL per kilometer. The difference is 5-fold.
This means that if the KGM Izmir-Aydın Highway is privatized, the current 73 TL vehicle toll will be indexed to the toll of the highway operated under the build-operate-transfer model and will rise to 365 TL. This is called robbing the citizens under the guise of privatization.
Attention to all our citizens!
— Deniz Yavuzyılmaz (@yavuzyilmazd) February 11, 2026
Especially those living in or traveling through Izmir and Aydın!
One of the public-operated highways that the AKP plans to privatize for 25 years is;
KGM Izmir-Aydın Highway??
Route: Izmir-Aydın
Length: 99 km.
Toll… pic.twitter.com/1LovZyXhpF
News Source: 12punto