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Justice System and Everyday Life in Türkiye
⛏️ Striking miners in Ankara end protest after deal brokered at interior ministry
Miners who had been protesting in Ankara have ended their action after a meeting at Türkiye’s Interior Ministry produced an agreement between the workers and their employer. Chaired by Deputy Interior Minister Ali Çelik, the talks brought together deputy ministers from Labour and Social Security and from Energy and Natural Resources, the National Police chief, the Ankara police chief, an Ankara deputy governor, the head of the Independent Mine Workers’ Union (Bağımsız Maden-İş) Gökay Çakır, union representative Başaran Aksu, miners Sinan Koçak and Özcan Gültekin, and Sabahattin Yıldız, the owner of Doruk Madencilik. After roughly 90 minutes of discussions, the ministry announced that the parties had reached a settlement and that the workers had agreed to end their action. According to reports, 96,340,000 lira was paid into the miners’ accounts following the intervention of Interior Minister Mustafa Çiftçi. Speaking outside the ministry, union chair Çakır said most workers had already received their wages and that the company had requested a 15-day window — guaranteed by the Labour, Energy and Interior Ministries and the Ankara police directorate — within which workers wishing to leave would receive their full severance entitlements, while those choosing to remain in employment would simply continue to draw their wages, with the union pledging that no member would be left aggrieved.
Politics
⚖️ Türkiye’s Constitutional Court marks 64th anniversary as president warns ‘no state ruled without justice can endure’
Türkiye’s Constitutional Court (AYM) has marked its 64th founding anniversary with a ceremony held in the High Court Hall, attended by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş, Vice-President Cevdet Yılmaz, the heads of the Court of Cassation and the Council of State, Justice Minister Akın Gürlek, Interior Minister Mustafa Çiftçi, Health Minister Kemal Memişoğlu, MPs and senior members of the judiciary. Court President Kadir Özkaya described the AYM as a central guarantor of the rule of law and of fundamental rights and freedoms, noting that the number of individual applications received since the introduction of the system has now exceeded 700,000, posing significant capacity challenges. Among the responses, Özkaya said the court was working on the use of artificial intelligence in the judicial process, with the aim of deploying AI from September 2026 to read, summarise and categorise individual application forms. Reflecting on the role of judges and prosecutors, he stressed that they must always rule courageously and with intellectual honesty, free from external pressure or internal bias. Turning to international affairs, Özkaya criticised the failure of the international community and judicial bodies to address ongoing wars and crises with anything more than temporary measures, citing structural shortcomings at the United Nations that have prevented decisive action on Gaza and elsewhere, and arguing that war is the greatest injustice — striking children and women hardest, halting development, fuelling hatred and leaving generational trauma. Drawing on the fates of historical figures such as Pharaoh, Nimrod and Croesus, the AYM president warned that no state acting on raw power and self-interest, without justice, can secure lasting peace and security or endure, however mighty, while justice combined with right makes any state long-lasting. The ceremony concluded with the swearing-in of newly elected court member Şaban Kazdal, who was robed by Özkaya.
🏢 Turkish parliament debates curbs on excessive housing fees and quake-zone protections
The general debate has concluded in the Turkish Grand National Assembly on a draft law amending the Land Registry Law and several other statutes, including the much-discussed Decree Law No 375. The bill aims to rein in excessive residential complex management fees by strengthening the powers of the general assembly of property owners, prevents the seizure of grants and credits provided to those affected by the earthquake, and grants the Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change new “urgent expropriation” powers for social housing projects. Yeni Yol Party group leader Mehmet Emin Ekmen accused the ministry of announcing new projects daily without clarity on completion, claiming that the “Half From Us” urban transformation programme launched in April 2023 had yet to begin and that low-income citizens’ hopes of home ownership remained unfulfilled. His colleague Mehmet Atmaca criticised the bill as another “omnibus” text, noting that it touches on 14 different laws under the banner of earthquake-related reform without consulting academics. İYİ Party MP Yavuz Aydın broadly welcomed the apartment ownership provisions but warned against expanding urgent expropriation through “social housing area” designations and against tying municipal company formation to presidential approval, arguing this would weaken local services. MHP MP Semih Işıkver backed the bill as a reform package securing safer living spaces and curbing arbitrary fee hikes. DEM Party MPs Sabahat Erdoğan Sarıtaş and George Aslan criticised the transfer of environmental inspection powers to private bodies, the broadening of urgent expropriation, and the requirement of presidential approval for municipal companies, with Aslan describing the appointment of trustees to certain municipalities as a “hijacking of the popular will”. CHP MPs Sururi Çorabatır and Gülcan Kış argued that the omnibus approach undermined legislative quality, that proper impact assessments were missing, and that some provisions were unconstitutional, warning that cities cannot be strengthened by weakening municipalities. Defending the proposal, AKP MP Adem Yeşildal — one of its initial signatories — said it would tackle management fees that “rival rent levels” by requiring site managers to obtain general assembly approval for fees, advances and management plans, and proposed reducing the threshold for amending management plans in large complexes from four-fifths to two-thirds. He added that property valuation reports would be electronically submitted to the Land Registry and Cadastre Directorate, and clarified that the urgent expropriation power was being granted only for social housing projects. Following the debate, Deputy Speaker Bekir Bozdağ adjourned the session until 14:00 the next day after the relevant committee failed to take its place.
🏫 Turkish parliament names members of commission probing Şanlıurfa and Kahramanmaraş school attacks
The Turkish Grand National Assembly has selected the members of a parliamentary research commission set up to investigate the recent attacks at schools in Şanlıurfa and Kahramanmaraş, alongside the wider risks and negative effects faced by children in digital environments. The 22-member commission, formed after group proposals were discussed in the General Assembly, will draw 11 members from the AKP, five from CHP, two from DEM Party, two from MHP, and one each from İYİ Party and the Yeni Yol Party. The AKP members are Hasan Arslan (Afyonkarahisar), Lütfiye Selva Çam (Ankara), Mehmet Emin Öz (Erzurum), İsa Mesih Şahin and Yıldız Konal Süslü (Istanbul), İrfan Karatutlu (Kahramanmaraş), Latif Selvi (Konya), Mustafa Hamarat (Ordu), Nazım Maviş (Sinop), Mehmet Ali Cevheri (Şanlıurfa) and Yusuf Beyazıt (Tokat). CHP is represented by Suat Özçağdaş (Istanbul), Murat Bakan (İzmir), Ali Öztunç (Kahramanmaraş), Gizem Özcan (Muğla) and Mahmut Tanal (Şanlıurfa). DEM Party will field Yılmaz Hun (Iğdır) and Beritan Güneş Altın (Mardin), MHP will be represented by Zuhal Karakoç (Kahramanmaraş) and İbrahim Özyavuz (Şanlıurfa), with Şenol Sunat (Manisa) for İYİ Party and Birol Aydın (Istanbul) for Yeni Yol. The commission will hold its first meeting on the following day to elect its chair, deputy chair, spokesperson and secretary, and is expected to complete its work within three months, with the option to convene outside Ankara if required.
🌊 Turkish foreign minister attends Three Seas Initiative summit in Croatia
Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has travelled to Croatia on an official visit, taking part in the General Session of the 11th Three Seas Initiative Summit held in the city of Dubrovnik on behalf of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Fidan also joined the leaders for the traditional family photograph taken during the proceedings.
📢 Turkish ministry confirms inquiry into Ayaş district governor over social media posts
Türkiye’s Interior Ministry has announced that an investigation has been opened into Muharrem Eligül, the district governor of Ayaş, over his social media posts, with a civil service inspector appointed to handle the inquiry. In its statement, the ministry also confirmed that Eligül has been reassigned as a legal adviser to the Edirne Governor’s Office.
👶 Türkiye warns primary school population could fall by 900,000 within five years
Türkiye’s Family and Social Services Minister Mahinur Özdemir Göktaş has warned that, on current trends, the country’s primary-school-age population could fall by 900,000 over the next five years, citing data from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK). Speaking at the editors’ table at Anadolu Agency, Göktaş said the decline in fertility was directly affecting the number of school-age children and that comprehensive policies were being introduced rapidly to manage the demographic shift. While noting that Türkiye still has a young and dynamic population compared with Europe, the minister cautioned that ageing was beginning to set in and pledged measures aimed at keeping the country’s “window of opportunity” open. Göktaş also outlined upcoming regulation of children’s online environments, stressing that the government would not leave children at the mercy of major technology companies and their algorithms. A new regulation, expected within six months, will introduce age verification through the e-Government password system for users under 15, require social network providers with more than one million users to maintain a representative in Türkiye, and oblige platforms to remove inappropriate content within an hour and to take down deceptive advertising; for the first time, comparable rules will also apply to online games with more than 100,000 users. Platforms must produce differentiated content for the 15–18 age group, with administrative fines ranging from one to ten million lira for breaches. The minister, who said the framework grew out of a 2024 workshop on digital addiction in which children spoke of identifying with darker, weapon-wielding characters, insisted that the goal was not prohibition but oversight, accountability and family involvement, with parental support sought as part of a wide-ranging policy in which she said Türkiye was now a pioneering country.
🏘️ Türkiye introduces mandatory ‘secure payment system’ for property transactions
Türkiye is making it compulsory for property purchases to be settled through a “secure payment system” operated by banks and financial institutions, according to a regulation prepared by the Ministry of Trade and published in the Official Gazette. Under the new rules, payments for residential property, land and commercial premises made by cash, wire transfer, EFT or other methods to be determined by the ministry will have to flow through a system that ensures the transfer of funds takes place simultaneously with the transfer of ownership. In credit-based sales, all payments other than the loan amount provided by banks, financing companies or savings finance companies must also pass through this system. A joint commission of representatives from the Ministry of Trade and the Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change will oversee the establishment and operation of the system, identifying technical issues, proposing solutions and monitoring how it works in practice; the Trade Ministry, after consulting with the latter, will set out which transactions are exempt, the level of usage fees and how those fees are to be shared, with details to be announced publicly. The aim is to curb payment-related fraud and harm to consumers in property transactions. The regulation also amends the rules on authorisation certificates for estate agents, requiring certificates to be amended when business details change and renewed when there is a change of trade name or business name, with applications to be made within 10 days. The new payment system will not become mandatory until 1 July 2026, and the Ministry of Trade may extend this transition period by up to three months.
⚓ Türkiye sets timeline for nuclear-powered submarine ambitions
Türkiye’s Defence Minister Yaşar Güler has confirmed that a timeline is in place for the design, production and feasibility work on a nuclear-powered submarine, in a written reply to a parliamentary question from Yeniden Refah Party Konya MP Ali Yüksel. According to Cumhuriyet, Güler said Türkiye aims to expand its defence industry and bolster its naval power, with plans to build long-range submarines featuring high stealth characteristics, and that work on a nuclear-powered submarine is continuing. The minister stated that the Turkish Naval Forces remain open to cooperation with friendly and allied countries, particularly NATO members, on nuclear propulsion technology, while efforts are also being made to use indigenous and national technology in the Nuclear-Powered Submarine Project. The National Submarine and Nuclear Submarine projects, the response added, form part of Türkiye’s strategy to strengthen deterrence against regional threats in the Eastern Mediterranean and surrounding seas, and of its broader vision of becoming a global power.
🐕 Istanbul animal protection meeting postponed amid outcry over ‘euthanasia’ agenda
A meeting of the Istanbul Provincial Animal Protection Board, which had been expected to discuss the rounding-up of dogs from university campuses and the application of “euthanasia” to animals in shelters, has been postponed following a public outcry. According to Cumhuriyet, the meeting had been announced to take place after the passage of the legislation widely referred to in the public arena as the “massacre law”, prompting strong reactions from animal rights advocates and lawyers, who argued that the items on the agenda directly targeted the right to life. No official statement has yet been issued on whether the board will reconvene, with animal rights advocates pledging to follow the process closely. Sena Şengün, of the Voice of the Lawyer Initiative, rejected the meeting as planned and said that they would be equally ready to respond whenever a new date is set.
🏥 ‘Final nail’ driven into Türkiye’s military hospitals as references removed from regulation
References to military hospitals have been struck from Türkiye’s Officer and Non-Commissioned Officer Regulation, raising fresh doubts over previous pledges to reopen them. According to Sözcü, as reported by Gazete Pencere, Article 53 of the regulation has been amended in the Official Gazette to remove the phrases “Military Hospitals, specialists at Military Hospitals, Full-fledged Military Hospitals, Gülhane Military Medical Academy and Haydarpaşa Military Hospital” altogether, replacing them with “public hospitals and authorised health institutions” — meaning the medical care of officers and non-commissioned officers will now be provided through state hospitals and other health bodies. Following the failed coup of 15 July 2016, 32 military hospitals across 26 provinces were shut down, with subsequent cross-border operations exposing a shortage of war surgery specialists. Although former Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said in 2022 that there was “demand and need” for military hospitals, and his successor Yaşar Güler later spoke of “intensive work” to reopen them, the hospitals have remained closed for a decade. The closures saw a large share of the country’s 2,043 military doctors and war surgery specialists either retire or move to private hospitals; Deputy Defence Minister Şuay Alpay has said the number of war surgery specialists has fallen to 347, describing the situation as dire. Türkiye is reported to be the only NATO member without a military hospital, while countries with a far lower likelihood of war — including Sweden, Norway and Finland — are said to be opening such hospitals and training surgeons.
Ruling Government (AKP, MHP and DEM coalition aka People’s Alliance)
📅 Erdoğan’s early election plans pushed back to spring 2028
Plans for an early election in Türkiye, widely seen as essential for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to be able to stand again, have reportedly been pushed back from November 2027 to spring 2028 amid mounting economic strain. According to the pro-government Türkiye Gazetesi, the AK Party government does not expect the economy to recover by November 2027, and going to the polls against an unrecovered economic backdrop is regarded as too great a risk. Officials are said to have failed to contain the economic fallout from the US–Iran war or to stabilise fuel prices, while Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek’s policies are reported to have compounded cost-of-living pressures, with tax burdens and fines further wearing down voters. Any election must take place before 14 May 2028 if Erdoğan is to be eligible to run, and party circles now say 2027 has been clearly ruled out. According to a report by Emrah Özcan, holding the vote in April or May 2028 is seen as buying the economic team an additional six to seven months, with insiders warning that going to the ballot box under current economic conditions would be risky.
🇹🇷 Bahçeli warns world is going through a ‘difficult test’ as MHP marks Nationalists’ Day
MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli has warned of deepening fractures in the global system in a speech to his party’s parliamentary group, declaring that “the world is going through a difficult test”, with cracks appearing in the pillars of the international order, geopolitical ground shifting and economic tensions and political fault lines hardening. Speaking ahead of 3 May Nationalists’ Day, the MHP leader argued that states are being tested in their resolve, nations in their fortitude and societies in their patience, and that even though borders may appear fixed, the nature of threats is changing — making national unity and solidarity all the more important. Drawing on cultural references including the late folk musicians Neşet Ertaş and Barış Manço, Bahçeli described the nation as far more than the sum of those living within the same borders, casting it instead as a partnership of shared fate, common memory and joint endeavour, citing Atatürk’s definition of the people of the Republic of Türkiye as the Turkish nation. Turning to history, Bahçeli framed 3 May 1944 as a foundational moment for Turkish nationalism, recalling how, against the backdrop of the closing phase of the Second World War, Turkish youth filled Ankara’s courthouse to defend Turkish identity and Islam against what he characterised as the threat of communism and Soviet imperialism, in trials that put leading nationalist figures — including Alparslan Türkeş, Hüseyin Nihal Atsız, Zeki Velidi Togan, Orhan Şaik Gökyay, Nejdet Sancar, Reha Oğuz Türkkan, Fethi Tevetoğlu and Cemal Oğuz Öcal — in the dock.
🕌 AKP’s Tayyar takes swipe at former religious affairs chief over decline in religion classes
AKP Gaziantep MP Şamil Tayyar has hit back at former Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) head Ali Erbaş over his concerns about falling enrolment in optional Quran and Prophetic biography (siyer) classes in Turkish schools. Erbaş, who handed over his post in 2025, appeared before cameras for the first time since stepping down and lamented that the take-up rate for the lessons had fallen to about 4 per cent, down from around 30 per cent in the early years after they were introduced into the curriculum. Writing on social media, Tayyar described the courses as a project of major importance to the AKP and asked what had caused students to begin drifting away from religion. Suggesting his own avenue for those reflecting on the question, Tayyar wondered, in a barbed turn of phrase, whether students’ choices might have been negatively influenced by religious figures who “speak of the justice of Caliph Omar but live like Tourist Ömer, and refer to the knowledge of Caliph Ali but live like Cin Ali” — invoking the carefree comic-film character Tourist Ömer and the simple cartoon child Cin Ali familiar to generations of Turkish readers.
🐺 MHP shake-up reaches Idealist Hearths as Kütahya chair replaced
The wave of restructuring underway within Türkiye’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) provincial organisations has now reached the Ülkü Ocakları (Idealist Hearths), the party’s youth and grassroots organisation. According to a report by Merve Kılıç in Cumhuriyet, the process — which has gathered pace since the departure of İzzet Ulvi Yönter and has already seen several provincial organisations dissolved — is being interpreted in party circles as a purge of cadres close to Yönter. The first concrete change has come in Kütahya, where Idealist Hearths provincial chair İlker Bükni has handed over his post to Veli Özdemir. Attention has now turned to other provinces, with similar moves widely expected to follow elsewhere.
⚖️ Lawyer Tunçer obtains seizure order against AKP troll’s bank accounts and motorbike
Lawyer Sevdagül Tunçer has had bank accounts and a motorbike belonging to AKP-aligned social media figure Furkan Bölükbaşı seized over the unpaid portion of a damages award she won against him. Bölükbaşı, who has drawn public criticism for his social media posts, was ordered by the court to pay 60,000 lira in compensation to Tunçer. He subsequently announced on social media that he had no money to settle the award and asked his followers for donations, saying his door was open to anyone wishing to help, a move that itself sparked further backlash. Tunçer, a former deputy chair of the Zafer Party, then announced via her own social media account that she had obtained a seizure order targeting Bölükbaşı’s bank accounts and motorbike to recover the outstanding sum. The dispute originally arose after Bölükbaşı posted a message addressed to Tunçer urging her to end what he characterised as a relationship with politician Ümit Özdağ and leave the party, claiming he would forgive the damages case if she did so; Tunçer sued and won. Reacting to his appeal for donations, she remarked that he had “begun begging” by claiming he could not pay, and suggested he should “sell simit and live with dignity”.
Opposition Parties (CHP and others)
🗳️ CHP’s Özel predicts election ‘by October 2027 at the latest’, launches campaign on 4 May
CHP leader Özgür Özel has said he believes Türkiye’s next election will be held by October 2027 at the latest, citing signals across Ankara, and announced that the main opposition party will formally launch its campaign on 4 May. Speaking to Sözcü TV’s Aslı Kurtuluş Mutlu, Özel said the party must remain ready at any moment for a snap or early election, and that the campaign would now move beyond the leader-led phase of the past year into a “360-degree” effort involving MPs, the Central Executive Committee (MYK) and Party Council (PM). Of 186,000 ballot box officials already designated — far earlier than the traditional two-to-three-month window before polling day — 106,000 will take to the streets across all 81 provinces on 4 May to begin door-to-door visits, each responsible for around 300 voters in roughly 200 households, with planned follow-up rounds in June, a different effort in July and August, and third and fourth visits in September and October. Rejecting suggestions that recent legal pressures might prompt the party to step back from positions in the party, parliament or town halls, Özel said municipal governance was the most powerful response to the AK Party, which he accused of attacking CHP precisely because of its successes in local government, and insisted the opposition was instead “shifting up a gear” and entering the second phase of its campaign, with the third and final phase to begin around a year from now.
🤝 CHP charts new course, calls on opposition to unite under ‘democracy front’
Türkiye’s main opposition CHP is drawing up a new roadmap that seeks to bring opposition forces, dispersed since the 2023 elections, together under what it calls a “democracy front”, with leader Özgür Özel set to continue holding rallies and the party launching a nationwide field operation. According to BBC Turkish, both CHP-affiliated mayors and party officials have agreed in internal discussions that the difficulties facing the party cannot be confronted alone, and that the opposition should align not only on the question of an interim election but also on the economy, a Political Ethics Law and joint resistance to legal violations. Party figures stress this is not formally an alliance push but a shared “democracy front”, while not ruling out that today’s coordination could evolve into electoral cooperation in future — though they make clear that any such future arrangement would not take the form of the previous “Table of Six” framework, which neither CHP nor its interlocutors are said to find acceptable. The first joint working group is expected to focus on a Political Ethics Law, with a cross-party commission tasked with drafting a common bill. CHP, which held a “Conference for Social Peace and Democracy” on the Kurdish issue at the end of January, plans further conferences on foreign policy and on development, with broad opposition participation, and intends to mobilise wide opposition attendance at hearings where the suspended Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu — held in detention for over a year — will present his defence. From 4 May, a simultaneous, comprehensive campaign in all 81 provinces will see MYK and Party Council members alongside MPs working in their home provinces in face-to-face contact with voters; party strategists describe the period as a “rapid campaign phase” focused on the economy, justice and development, with operations against municipalities and what they describe as legal violations cast as directly damaging citizens’ livelihoods through the message: “As your freedoms shrink, so does your bread.”
🛩️ CHP MP claims airport cameras were down on day Libyan plane crashed in Ankara
CHP deputy chair Deniz Yavuzyılmaz has alleged that surveillance cameras operated by Türkiye’s State Airports Authority (DHMİ) at Ankara’s Esenboğa Airport were not functioning on the day a Libyan military aircraft crashed near Ankara on 23 December 2025, killing all eight on board, including Libyan Chief of General Staff General Muhammad Ali Ahmed Al-Haddad. The aircraft had taken off from Esenboğa for Tripoli and went down around 19 minutes later near Kesikkavak village in the Haymana district. In a social media post, Yavuzyılmaz said the Libyan jet had been parked at the airport’s Apron No 5 — rather than the main Apron No 1, normally used for foreign state officials and closest to the VIP terminal — and that an Israeli jet had subsequently been directed to the same apron, where the two aircraft sat side by side for 1 hour and 41 minutes while the Libyan crew were at their hotel; he claimed that DHMİ cameras meant to monitor and record the parking positions in real time were not working that day. The CHP politician challenged Transport Minister Abdülkadir Uraloğlu either to explain why the cameras were down or, if they were working, to release the relevant footage, suggesting otherwise that he himself could publish 1 hour and 41 minutes of footage from a private security camera covering the same area. Yavuzyılmaz also drew attention to a presidential decision dated 24 April 2026 extending the board terms of two senior DHMİ figures — deputy general manager Fatih Çakmak and airport security chief Mustafa Akkaya — questioning what the move was rewarding, and put a series of pointed questions to the president and the ministers of transport, interior and foreign affairs about whether they were aware the cameras were not functioning while the two aircraft remained on the same apron.
🌊 Jailed İmamoğlu adviser predicts CHP ‘tsunami’ and 20-year era of opposition rule
Necati Özkan, the former adviser to suspended Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and currently in detention as part of the İBB case on espionage charges, has predicted that whenever the next election is held in Türkiye, it will deliver a sweeping CHP victory and at least two decades of CHP rule. In an interview with Medyascope, Özkan argued that the AK Party and the People’s Alliance were collectively paving the way for a stronger CHP government and recalled that, on the night of the 31 March 2024 local elections, he had described the result as a “tsunami” before the count had even begun. While that political earthquake, he said, was perhaps of magnitude 6 or 6.5, the next one will be at least an 8, with the wave likely to be stronger than those seen in Northern Cyprus or Hungary, leaving everyone but a small political and bureaucratic elite of the established order on the winning side. Turning to his own case, Özkan rejected the indictment’s portrayal of co-defendant Hüseyin Gün as a spy, saying he had found no admission or evidence of espionage in the file and that Gün’s relationships with former and current politicians, military figures, bureaucrats and retired intelligence officers all appeared to be commercial and profit-driven; the only contrary indication, he said, came from the testimony of the son of a woman Gün referred to as his “spiritual mother”, in what appeared to be an inheritance dispute. Özkan said his own contact with Gün had been initiated 11–12 days before the rerun of the Istanbul mayoral election on 23 June 2019, with a view to pitching an IT project to the municipality, and that he cut off all communication once he saw how amateurish and overpriced the proposal was — adding that Gün’s later message to him began with the words “even though we don’t know each other very well”. Concluding with an appeal to readers, Özkan urged people not to fear the coming wave, arguing that it would dispel the darkness over the country, restore truth, law, justice and freedom, dismantle walls of fear, and rebuild state institutions to set Türkiye back on a path of civilisational progress.
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