According To AKP Figures, Everything İs Proceeding Normally

Politics Service

As undisclosed lists and the political connections behind the fund scandal described as the profiteering operation of the century continue to be concealed from the public, the Palace regime is struggling to manage the crisis. Having sacrificed former AKP Deputy Chair Fatma Betül Kaya, the Palace administration is attempting to rid itself of the cost of the scandal through certain bureaucrats whom it has remanded in custody or forced to resign.

Statements that “whoever is implicated in the profiteering operation, no one will be spared” have not gone beyond rhetoric. Following Justice Minister Akın Gürlek’s statements that there was an organised-crime connection in the scandal, there is still not the slightest information about the organisation’s leader, its structure or the names involved. Most recently, AKP Deputy Parliamentary Group Chair Abdulhamit Gül joined the procession of government figures making statements about the scandal. Gül also said that those responsible would be held to account, wherever the investigation might lead.

Speaking about the profiteering operation, which Akın Gürlek described as a hierarchical organised structure, Gül said: “It is clear that there is negligence by certain people in three to five bureaucratic institutions, blatant negligence here, an organised structure bordering on intent, an act.”

While emphasising transparency in relation to the undisclosed lists, Gül claimed that the process was proceeding with care. Ignoring rising poverty and the deepening economic crisis and saying nothing about the economic dimensions of the scandal, Gül said that the economy was also in a very good state.

Alongside Gül’s statements about confidence in the economy, the Financial Times wrote in its report on the scandal that Türkiye’s $20 billion fund scandal had damaged investor confidence and could make it more difficult for the country to access $300 billion in financing for its climate and energy transition.

Meanwhile, the Palace regime’s statements about transparency and a careful approach were accompanied by its responses to parliamentary investigation motions. Motions submitted in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey by the İYİ Party, Yeni Yol, CHP and YENİ Party parliamentary groups were rejected with the votes of the AKP and MHP. Opposition MPs who spoke on the motions called for every aspect of the fund investigation to be examined and for an investigation committee to be established.

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Former AKP Deputy Chair Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya, who was remanded in custody as part of the fund investigation, is being held at Marmara Closed Prison, commonly known as Silivri No. 9 Closed Prison. Kaya’s ward is located in C Block, which also houses women on remand and convicted prisoners.

According to a report by Alican Uludağ of DW Turkish, Kaya was reportedly disturbed by the slogans occasionally chanted and the banging on doors in protest by women serving prison sentences in connection with a left-wing organisation in the same block.

According to witnesses, Kaya cried during her first prison visit, saying: “I have two children.” It was also reported that Ali Ercan Akpolat, the remanded Mayor of the Princes’ Islands, who was in a nearby booth at the time, tried to console Kaya.

Note: This article is translated from the original article titled AKP'lilere göre her şey normal ilerliyor, published in BirGün newspaper on November 13, 2026.