The scandal that occurred when Asuman Aksoy, who started working in Bornova Municipality with the recommendation of Uşak Mayor Özkan Yalım, who was arrested by the court within the scope of the bribery and corruption investigation carried out by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, was brought to the Gaziemir Council. AK Party Group Deputy Chairman Uğur İnan Atmaca, who spoke at the first session of the Gaziemir Municipal Council in April, asked CHP’s Gaziemir Mayor Ünal Işık sweating questions. Reminding that President Işık appointed the staff of the Private Secretary Directorate without informing the parliament, Atmaca said; “I asked before about your appointment as a private secretary.

You said, ‘It’s within my jurisdiction’. Of course, it’s up to you. But if you have appointed a private secretary and you do not say this in the parliament, this causes a change in our perspective and the work you do is not in accordance with the law. We ask again. Is there an ATM operating in your municipality? Regarding this, the prosecutor’s office will initiate a study on HTS records. Therefore, we would like to remind you in case you come across this issue one day,” he said. Mayor Işık, who was observed to be angry at the questions asked by Atmaca, said: “I don’t know where you found the information about the software company in question, but there is tax confidentiality. Disclosing these is a crime. “As a financial advisor, I say that such companies are exempt from corporate tax,” he said.

It was a great surprise that AK Party Group Spokesperson Hasan Ünal, who was proposed as a candidate, received 13 votes in the council membership election held in Karşıyaka Municipal Council in Izmir, although the AK Party Group was 5 people. Motions regarding the determination of three members to be elected from among the council members by secret ballot to serve on the municipal council for a period of one year were brought to the agenda of the Assembly. While the CHP Group suggested the names of Belma İnan, Gamze Uğurlu and İlhami Yıldız for the new term council membership; The AK Party Group suggested Hasan Ünal as a member of the council. A ‘secret’ vote was held in the Parliament to determine the members of the council. Belma İnan received 17 votes, Gamze Uğurlu 28, İlhami Yıldız 24, Hasan Ünal 13 votes. İnan, Uğurlu and Yıldız were elected as council members. It was a great surprise that although the AK Party Group had 5 council members in the Karşıyaka Assembly, Ünal received 13 votes. This situation caused comments such as “Big crack in the CHP. Even CHP members did not vote for the CHP candidate.” CHP Group proposed Burak Ali Durak as the first vice president and Zekiye Dilek Bilgin as the second vice president. The AK Party group did not make any suggestions.

The 133rd issue of Lacivert magazine, a subsidiary of Turkuvaz Media Group, titled “Women: Victim, threat or exception?” He met with the readers with his file titled. In the remarkable part of the issue, KADEM Foundation Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Sümeyye Erdoğan Bayraktar, made evaluations about the current problems and social perceptions that women face. Bayraktar pointed out that global crises, economic fluctuations and wars further deepen the inequalities experienced by women. Speaking to Lacivert, Bayraktar explained the work and solution suggestions for a social order where women can live in trust, dignity and justice. Sümeyye Erdoğan Bayraktar said: “Women have been exposed to various rights violations in every age and society. Wars, waves of migration and deepening poverty affect women and girls the most. For example, in crisis areas, the rate of girls’ withdrawal from education increases significantly, and the risk of early marriages and abuse increases.

WESTERN HYPOCRITE

The feminist movement brought significant gains in terms of women’s rights in the West. The emphasis on diversity has an important place in this last period. On the other hand, today, like every ideology, feminism is frequently used to camouflage various global political agendas. As a matter of fact, for many years PKK female terrorists were portrayed as “freedom fighters”. In Eastern societies, women who are allegedly oppressed for wanting to uncover their heads can be quickly turned into heroes. The hypocrisy of the West actually applies not only to different cultures but also to its own people. “The fact that thousands of girls and women fell victim to disgusting abuse and even murder in the Epstein scandals is the most striking example of recent times.”

LOCAL VALUES ARE DISCOVERED

“Many of the international feminist movements have remained silent in the face of the humanitarian tragedy experienced by women in Gaza and Syria for years. The solidarity and empowerment struggle of women in Gaza and Syria is of critical importance not only for their own societies, but also from the perspective of universal human rights. KADEM aims to make visible the experiences of women in Gaza, Syria and other regions with its national and international works and social media campaigns. There have been periods in this country when our own history and values were kept at a distance or even ignored due to ideological blindness. In this process, local and “A narrative that mostly highlighted Western figures rather than well-established role models prevailed.”

Following the weekly press briefing held by the Ministry of National Defense (MSB), the questions of the press members were answered by the ministry. Regarding Türkiye’s basic strategy for the Black Sea and the NATO and non-NATO multinational Naval Headquarters it has established by taking the initiative within the framework of this strategy, as well as the Multinational Corps Headquarters, whose establishment works are continuing in Adana, he said: “There is no compromise on the principle of regional ownership and the Montreux Convention. All work is done accordingly. Türkiye’s security understanding towards the Black Sea; the priority role of the Black Sea coastal countries in line with the principle of regional ownership, in preserving the balance and stability provided by the Montreux Straits Convention.” “Thanks to this approach, the Black Sea has not turned into a large-scale conflict area today, as it was in the past.” Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mehmet Kemal Bozay also spoke clearly against the opposition’s perception operations that the Montreux Agreement will be violated. Bozay said, “We are not taking an approach that would harm our own security. It is vital for us that Montreux is not breached.”

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended the “Mass Opening Ceremony of 563 Facilities Completed by DSI” held at Beştepe Nation Congress and Culture Center. Erdoğan said the following in his speech:

THE STRUGGLE WILL BE FOR WATER: Water, which has a very important place in our civilization, culture, art and architecture and even our engineering activities, has gone far beyond being a basic resource we need to sustain our lives. The most strategic and valuable resource of a century where power competition is intensifying in every field is water, which is also the main element of production and energy. The struggle for oil and carbon fuels in the last century will be fought in the field of water in the coming period.

2.2 BILLION PEOPLE CANNOT ACCESS DRINKING WATER: When we look at the hot conflicts taking place around us, we can already see the signs of this. Problems caused by factors such as climate change, drought, population growth, excessive urbanization and industrialization increase the pressure on water resources. See, only 2.5 percent of the total water of 1.4 billion cubic kilometers around the world consists of fresh water. Although the world population, which was 3 billion in 1960, has exceeded 8 billion today, when we look at the amount of precipitation falling on the earth in the same period, there has been no change. While the need for clean water resources increases, unfortunately, usable water resources are rapidly decreasing due to rapid consumption and pollution. Today, 2.2 billion people in the world do not have access to healthy drinking water. The climate crisis threatens our water, our source of life, the most. Since we are located in the Mediterranean zone, we are one of the countries that face these threats most harshly.

YOU ARE ONE OF THE COUNTRIES SUFFERING FROM WATER STRESS: Türkiye is in the group of countries suffering from water stress, with an annual usable water amount of 1301 cubic meters per capita. While the world’s average rainfall is 990 millimeters per year, this figure in Türkiye is 574 millimeters per year. We have to protect our water resources before they reach the limit of depletion, use them efficiently and manage them correctly. Here I underline once again that we need to use our water more consciously. I would especially like to express that I expect maximum sensitivity on this issue from all our institutions and all our citizens. We must take care to use not only the water flowing from the tap, but also the water flowing loudly from the river, without wasting it.

EFFECTIVE FIGHT AGAINST FIRES: We are making our preparations against forest fires as quickly as possible. This year, we added 14 new helicopters to our air fleet, increasing the number of helicopters to 119 and our aerial water dropping capacity to 462 tons. We will fight fires much more effectively this year with our 28 aircraft, 14 unmanned aerial vehicles, 2 thousand 766 first response vehicles, 1953 water trucks and 878 work machines.

90 MILLION TONS OF WASTE WERE RECOVERED: Our Zero Waste movement, which was initiated under the leadership of my wife Emine Erdoğan and has turned into a global environmental project today, has left 9 years behind. We recycled 90 million tons of waste with the Zero Waste movement. We contributed 365 billion lira to our country’s economy. We will increase our recovery rate to 60 percent in 2035 and hopefully to 70 percent in 2053.

805 DAMS, 522 PONDS AND WEDDERS IN 23 YEARS

SINCE 2002, we have put into service 805 dams, 522 ponds and dams, 1890 irrigation facilities, 365 consolidation projects, 378 drinking water and wastewater facilities. Meanwhile, we brought 6 thousand 234 flood control facilities, 637 hydroelectric power plants, 148 underground storage and artificial feeding facilities to our country. We have completed 10 thousand 984 facilities, worth a total of 4 trillion 700 billion liras according to current figures, and placed them at the disposal of our nation. With these facilities, we opened 2.5 million hectares of land to irrigation. We contributed 416 billion liras annually to the Turkish economy. We created agricultural employment for a total of 2.2 million people. We carried out consolidation work on an area of ​​7 million 400 thousand hectares.

ANNUAL CONTRIBUTION OF 22 BILLION LIRA TO THE ECONOMY

I hope that our 563 new facilities, including 54 dams and ponds, 109 irrigation facilities, 18 drinking water facilities, 11 land consolidation and in-field development services, and 371 flood control facilities, will be auspicious. With these works, whose current investment cost is 137 billion liras, we have developed 896 million cubic meters of water storage capacity and opened 1 million 190 thousand decares of land for irrigation. Likewise, we provide 212 million cubic meters of drinking water annually and purify our drinking water treatment capacity by 301 thousand cubic meters per day. We will protect 505 residential areas and 52 thousand 400 decares of land from the damages caused by floods. These facilities will contribute 22 billion liras annually to our economy.

563 FACILITIES WERE OPENED

After President Erdoğan’s speech, 563 facilities were opened. Erdoğan went live to Adıyaman, Hatay and Muğla and inaugurated the investments completed in these provinces. The opening of Adıyaman Çetintepe Dam, which is Türkiye’s 10th largest in terms of filling volume and will contribute 14 billion lira to the country’s economy annually, Hatay Karasu Regulator and Derivation Channel and Muğla Girme Dam, was held with live connections.

ERDOĞAN ACCEPTED ‘AY YOLA’ MUSIC GROUP

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accepted the “Ay Yola” music group. Minister of Agriculture and Forestry İbrahim Yumaklı, Chairman of the Turkish Grand National Assembly Foreign Affairs Commission Fuat Oktay and Presidential Communications Director Burha Nettin Duran were also present at the reception held behind closed doors at the Presidential Complex. ANKARA

WE WILL CONTINUE TO SQUEEZE THE STONE AND EXTRACT THE WATER

THIS year we will complete 300 new water and irrigation facilities. Whether in agriculture, irrigation, transportation or any other field, the main thing is to have vision and will. He who worries about the problems of the country and the nation will serve. Those who serve will find justice and honor in the eyes of the people. The main difference between the incompetent mentality that condemns the people of the capital to thirst for days and queues for water with canisters in their hands in the middle of winter and the mentality that brings investments to our country is determination, love, and the love of serving the nation. We were not among those who found excuses, but rather those who found a way and did the work, and who put one stone after another. We used the resources that our citizens cut their throats and gave to the state to serve our people and produce works. From now on, despite the opportunists who try to create a storm in a glass of water and fill the jug while the water flows, we will continue to squeeze the stone and extract its water and work for this dear nation.

According to the statement made by the Ministry of Justice, Gürlek, in his speech at the reception at the Ministry, thanked business people for the employment they created in Nevşehir. Stating that Cappadocia comes to everyone’s mind when Nevşehir is mentioned, Gürlek said, “Nevşehir has many rich regions. Especially the pumice industry is very good, our organized industrial zone is very good. We need to cooperate and attract investor friends, especially in Istanbul, to Nevşehir and promote our organized industry.” he said. Explaining that they will act in cooperation with other ministries, Gürlek said:

“This is our region. We will help whatever is necessary to encourage industrialists to invest. We will also make your job easier. We will bring incentives to the region in terms of incentives, we will bring investors. If necessary, we will ensure that the organized industrial zone is increased. Bring us good projects. Say ‘Let’s do this, let’s do that’. Come to us with offers and projects. The people of our region really need jobs. The people of our region need to be promoted. We will contribute to this process as much as we can. Let’s be in constant consultation. Let’s get together.”

Reminding that he made his first visit to Nevşehir after becoming minister, Gürlek said, “I personally observed the field. You also help people in that region by providing job opportunities as much as you can. We will help in whatever way we can to bring these investments to the region. You always have an open door in Ankara. I was born in that region, grew up in that region, drank the water of that region. We are ready to do whatever is our part.” made his statements. Gürlek stated that he will continue his efforts to bring investors from different branches of industry to Nevşehir, provide employment and develop the city.