01.05.2025 17:01
The Communication Presidency's Disinformation Combat Center stated, "The claims that 'Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Murat Kurum and Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu's statements regarding the Kanal Istanbul Project contradict each other' are not true."
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The Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, Murat Kurum, stated, "We do not have any issues regarding Kanal Istanbul on our agenda," just one day before the Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Abdulkadir Uraloğlu, said, "We have not abandoned the Kanal Istanbul Project. It is not on our agenda today, but when the time comes and we find the right financing, we will definitely do it." This statement has caused confusion.
STATEMENT FROM DMM: THERE IS NO EXPRESSION INDICATING ABANDONMENT OF THE PROJECT A statement was made by the Presidency's Communication Directorate's Disinformation Combat Center (DMM) regarding the statements of the two ministers. The statement indicated that the claims about the contradictions between Kurum and Uraloğlu's statements regarding the Kanal Istanbul Project are not true, stating, "The Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, Murat Kurum, answered the question, 'Will Kanal Istanbul be built?' by saying, 'We do not have any issues regarding Kanal Istanbul on our agenda right now. We have stated that it is not. Creating a polemic over Kanal Istanbul and trying to shift the topic to other areas will not be accepted by our nation.'" It was emphasized that, as can be understood from the statement, there is no expression indicating that "the Kanal Istanbul Project has been abandoned." Minister Kurum highlighted that this is not the current agenda and that it has been unnecessarily used as material for polemics.
"BOTH STATEMENTS EMPHASIZE THAT THIS IS NOT THE CURRENT AGENDA" The statement made via DMM's social media account continued as follows: "Minister Uraloğlu also answered the Kanal Istanbul question as follows: '...We will build Kanal Istanbul with the right credit and financing opportunities at the right time. We have not abandoned it. If you are bringing up Kanal Istanbul to change the agenda, I do not find that correct. Right now, we are not discussing Kanal Istanbul as an agenda. We do not find it correct to discuss it. However, we have not abandoned Kanal Istanbul. Kanal Istanbul is a necessity for Turkey. We will do it at the right time.'" In both statements, bringing Kanal Istanbul to the agenda was evaluated as an "attempt to shift issues to other areas," and it was emphasized that "this is not the current agenda." The claims that the statements contradict each other are manipulations. Do not trust campaigns aimed at manipulating the public.
The statement from DMM is as follows;
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