Nine questions for Erdoğan from Kılıçdaroğlu

Here are the key points from CHP General Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu's speech:

We have come from the Turkey of Mustafa Kemal, who was honourable and proud, made concessions to nobody, secured economic independence and did not busy himself saying, “Can I go to London and persuade the usurers?” to Erdoğan's Turkey.

We are not only borrowing to pay our debts, we are also borrowing to pay interest on our debts.

“The briefcase toter remains in post”

Turkey is a state that is rotting within a dynastic structure. The senior management table was posted on the Ministry of Treasury and Finance’s website. The number one person has no title. This person is described as a briefcase toter, one of the dynasty. For some reason, he is above deputy ministers and undersecretaries. With news breaking, we looked and saw he had been removed from the site, but the briefcase toter still remains in post. He is the person with the highest authority after the minister.

“Why are Enis Berberoğlu and Eren Erdem in jail?”

Why are Enis Berberoğlu and Eren Erdem in jail? Why is Osman Kavala in jail? Nazlı Ilıcak, Ahmet Altan... We are either going to like or dislike their thoughts, but they only expressed their thoughts with their pens.

“For what reason did you drag mothers along the ground?”

If you do not develop the state democratically, it may rapidly turn into an organised crime syndicate. Look at the Saturday Mothers. You are dragging those elderly ladies and mothers along the ground. I am not saying anything to those police officers who used disproportionate force; I am speaking to those who gave the instruction. For what reason did you drag mothers along the ground? If they are culpable, it is for asking, “Where is my son’s grave?” This is how it turns out in an organised crime state. The state acquired the nature of an organised crime syndicate following coups. Murders by unknown perpetrators took place in those periods. Turkey must rid itself of these things.

“The Central Bank has no esteem in the world.”

Is the person who gives instructions to the legislative organ not going to give instructions to the Central Bank? The Central Bank has no esteem in the world. He increases interest rates and the stock exchange all at once, makes a killing and sends the money abroad. Paupers’ money.

“Good morning, gents, good morning.”

We said convert the tenders you hold on a dollar basis into Turkish lira. The contractor is a Republic of Turkey citizen; the tenderer is the state. What business do you have with dollars? Why did you do it in dollars? They have decided and there will be no renting in dollars at malls. Good morning, gents, good morning. Never mind that, just convert the billion-dollar tenders you awarded cronies into Turkish lira. Does your power suffice?

We said you could not bring well-being to Turkey with this foreign policy. We’re in for a tough time in Syria. If you want Syria’s unity and integrity, you must enter relations with Assad. There is no enmity and malice in foreign policy. The leader of a country where we intervened and which we pushed into the sea proposed that Mustafa Kemal be awarded the Nobel Prize.

“We are heading directly towards the Ottoman Public Debt Administration period.”

It is crony contractors and usurers that are managing the economy. They say they shouldn’t manage the economy with debt. Good morning, gents! We are heading directly towards the Ottoman Public Debt Administration period.

We are living through the Tulip Era. They have their cars. With ministers of countries whose economies are in better shape than ours going by scheduled plane, ours go by private plane. They don’t want to remain within their means. They continue with their debauchery!

“Prove my involvement to the tune of one lira and I will give up politics”

It is as if my daughter’s children have apartments in America. You are the one who is together from morning to night with the currency barons and hand out tenders. Prove my involvement to the tune of one lira and I will give up politics. I reveal yours in all settings. There is not a peep from you.

I pose nine questions to Erdoğan:

Was it foreign powers that said end agriculture, drag farmers into insolvency and import agricultural produce?

You awarded the biggest tenders in Turkey to your cronies indexed to the dollar. Was it foreign powers that said they should earn even more?

Was it foreign powers that said give your cronies guaranteed income in dollars?

Was it foreign powers that said make the state stand surety for your cronies’ projects worth 123 billion dollars?

Was it foreign powers that said permit them to borrow in foreign currency?

Was it foreign powers that said surrender Turkey to a handful of usurers in London?

You said that the loan taker takes orders. Are you going to reveal that it was foreign powers that gave the order to bring the country into this state?

You said that the loan taker takes orders. You have started to knock at Qatar’s door and beg to get loans. Will you now take orders from Qatar?

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