11.11.2026 11:44
CHP Gaziantep MP Hasan Öztürkmen claimed that one of the institutions whose money got stuck in the fund crisis was the AK Party. Öztürkmen argued that the salaries of AK Party General Headquarters employees were also stuck in the fund, asking which fund company the money was invested in, by whom, and when. Öztürkmen also maintained that 2.9 billion liras of the Unemployment Insurance Fund were stuck in Takasbank.
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CHP Gaziantep MP Hasan Öztürkmen said, “According to the information we have obtained, the salaries of AKP General Center employees have also been left in the fund. The exact amount will become clear soon. Important questions arise here; let the AKP Group Deputy Chairpersons answer: To which fund company, by whom, and when were the salaries of AKP General Center employees deposited? How much money was lost, and in which portfolio was it invested?”
In a written statement, CHP Gaziantep MP Öztürkmen argued that the number of victims in the fund crisis was announced as 455,758, but the real number is much higher than that.
CLAIM THAT PUBLIC RESOURCES WERE ALSO LEFT IN THE FUND
Noting that what happened affected not only fund holders but also independent stock market investors, Öztürkmen said, “When they are included, the number of victims reaches 5 million. Not only our citizens but also our public resources have been lost to these fund swindlers. It has emerged that 2.9 billion TL of the Unemployment Insurance Fund, which was invested in a private fund company, is stuck in Takasbank, and that 12.7 billion TL of Türkiye Sigorta is in Tera, at the center of the fund swindle. We do not know which other public institutions’ savings are stuck in funds,” he said. Öztürkmen continued as follows:
“One of the institutions whose money remained in the fund is directly the AKP. According to the information we have obtained, the salaries of AKP General Center employees have also been left in the fund. The exact amount will become clear soon. Important questions arise here; let the AKP Group Deputy Chairpersons answer: To which fund company, by whom, and when were the salaries of AKP General Center employees deposited? How much money was lost, and in which portfolio was it invested?”
WHO IS THE POLITICIAN WHO BROUGHT SAYAN KAYA TOGETHER WITH THE TERA EXECUTIVE?
Öztürkmen, pointing to the judicial questioning of former Minister Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya, who was arrested within the scope of the fund investigation, noted the following:
“Kaya said that Erdin Özel, the executive of Tera, one of the companies at the center of the swindle, was suggested to her ‘by politicians,’ and that she entered the stock market with the politicians’ prompting. With the implication of ‘politician,’ Kaya is giving the message ‘I did not do these things alone.’ In this case, important questions arise that Kaya must answer: Who are the politicians who suggested Tera executive Erdin Özel to her? For what reason was he suggested? Why was Tera’s Özel sought to be made a ‘helper’? The answers to these questions will provide important information about the political leg of the organized fund swindle.
Or are the politicians who suggested Erdin Özel to Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya as a ‘helper’ among the people President Erdoğan referred to when he said, ‘You see, people you would never expect have gotten involved in these matters’? If Erdoğan insistently refuses to disclose the list of swindlers, then surely a confessor will reveal them. Kaya’s implication is the first sign of this. Let us also ask under the roof of Parliament a claim that has reached us: Is the ‘politician’ who brought Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya together with Tera executive Erdin Özel a person influential in the Palace? We have also learned that, apart from Kaya, there are other AKP politicians who bought large amounts of ‘Özata Denizcilik’ shares. You know this too. Why are you not initiating proceedings against them?
On the other hand, we see that the debate is growing within the AKP as well. The information leaked to the press by senior AKP members who were not involved in fund affairs is also meaningful. According to the claim, a senior AKP executive says: ‘Fatma Betül is a result; the causes are walking around freely. It is impossible for it to be one person; the chain must be quite long.’ Since the list of swindlers has not been disclosed, the end of that chain is indeed quite long. Moreover, the bill for this swindle cannot be charged only to the financial bureaucracy. Even if that were the case, it is obvious that all the senior appointments to the SPK, BDDK, Central Registry Agency, Takasbank, Borsa İstanbul and Türkiye Sigorta were made with President Erdoğan’s signature.”