At the invitation of Mayor Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Mihalgazi Mayor Zeynep Güneş attended the AK Party TBMM Group Meeting., Women from Eskişehir came to the Turkish Grand National Assembly to support Mihalgazi Mayor Zeynep Güneş, who was welcomed with applause.

ZEYNEP GÜNEŞ SAT NEXT TO PRESIDENT ERDOĞAN

Mihalgazi Mayor Zeynep Güneş and the women accompanying her, who were invited by Mayor Erdoğan to the meeting in the Parliament, also took their place in the hall. Güneş sat next to President Erdoğan before his statements at the group meeting. President Erdoğan took the podium, accompanied by applause in the hall, and began his speech.

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Here are the highlights from Erdoğan’s speech:

“My dear nation, esteemed members of parliament, distinguished members of our press, very valuable guests, I greet you with my most heartfelt feelings. I hope that the AK Party group meetings will continuously bring goodness to our nation and democracy. I welcome our esteemed students who honor us with their participation, and our young brothers who add excitement to our excitement and joy to our enthusiasm, and I welcome you to them.

“I CURSE THE ARROGANT, VIOLENT MENTALITY OF FEBRUARY 28”

I would like to express my gratitude to our Mayor Zeynep Güneş and all our female friends, who came to our group hall from Eskişehir Mihalgazi, wearing their white scarves, just like in the War of Independence a century ago, for showing once again the thousand-year-old nobility of the Anatolian woman here today. A successful female politician, who has served her district for three terms with the authority received from the nation, works in the district to which she belongs as a woman in shalwar. Today, I once again condemn the arrogant, vile mentality that emerged from February 28th.

“WE ARE STRONG AGAINST THOSE WHO TRY TO RECRUIT THE OLD DARK DAYS”

I want it to be known that we will continue our fight to the end, on every ground, against those who have usurped headscarved women’s right to education and employment opportunities in the public sector for years, against those who criticize the scarves, headscarves, shalwars, chadors, robes and frocks that Anatolian women have proudly carried for centuries, and against those who look down on our nation and despise it. We have not and will not tolerate the prohibitionist mentality in this country. We stood tall and will stand against those who try to revive the old dark days. We stood tall and will stand against those who try to revive the old dark days. Today, once again, I salute all my sisters and brothers who follow the path of Şerife Bacı, Kara Fatma, and Nene Hatun. May God continue our love that cannot fit into living rooms.

“WE WILL NOT LEAVE THE SQUARE TO THOSE WHO WAG THE FINGERS AT WOMEN”

President Erdoğan made the following statements at the AK Party TBMM Group Meeting. I would like to thank my brothers and sisters, together with Zeynep Güneş, who came to our hall from Mihalgazi wearing white veils and shalwars, just like in our War of Independence a century ago, and I express my gratitude to them for their dignified stance that reflects the thousand-year-old nobility of Anatolian women. I once again condemn the fascist, arrogant and despicable mentality of February 28. We will not leave the square to those who point fingers at women. We have not and will not tolerate the prohibitive and oppressive mentality in this country. We will stand tall against those who try to revive the old dark days.

HE COULD NOT HOLD HIS TEARS!

Mihalgazi Mayor Zeynep Güneş watched Mayor Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s statements in tears.

PRESIDENT ERDOĞAN HAD PERSONALLY CALLED

Mayor Erdoğan also called Eskişehir Mihalgazi Mayor Zeynep Güneş, who has been on the agenda recently due to her attire. Stating that he supported Güneş on the phone, President Erdoğan said, “You are coming to our group meeting with 100 women on Wednesday. You are coming all white, you are already white. But now you have made a revolutionary turn. Look what he says? He says, ‘Bring this civilian constitution and save us from these things.’ “I hope we will be together. We are at the MYK meeting right now. All our friends send their greetings. They are all praying,” he said. After hanging up the phone, President Erdoğan told the Central Executive Committee members that Güneş would attend the group meeting to be held today with 100 women wearing white headscarves.

With the Presidential Decree published in the Official Gazette, new names were appointed to the posts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Justice. Former ministers and new ministers made important statements at the handover ceremonies.

FLAG CHANGE AT THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR

Highlights of Yerlikaya’s speech:

Dear Minister, my dear friends, dear members of our internal affairs family, our nation watching us on their screens, we salute you with respect. Our brother Mustafa Çiftçi was appointed to the post of Minister with the approval of our president. I congratulate him wholeheartedly. God help us. He is both my colleague and a fellow countryman from Konya. Another governor brother of ours was deemed worthy of this position. Instead of success, he took the same flag of service from us and, under the leadership of our president, will work day and night, with God’s permission, for the security and peace of our nation and state. I am grateful to our President. I express my gratitude. I have served since my district governorship until today. We don’t know how many breaths there are between the first breath and the last breath, we call this life, this life passes with tests. Sometimes, when we are tested with authority and we say thank you, these tests continue. Since our leader Erdoğan’s first term as prime minister, we have had the chance to work in his duties and ministries with the prayers of our nation and leave with pride. I believe that our esteemed minister will hand it over to one of our brothers with pride. I am grateful to each of our colleagues. We did not harm anyone with our tongue. We worked hard to do our job best. Every beginning has a prayer. I leave today with the same prayer I did when I first arrived. The last thank you goes to my family. I could not always neglect my social circle, I could not go to weddings and events. I worked for our state and our nation.

Minister of Internal Affairs Mustafa Çiftçi made the following statements:

Dear Minister, my dear colleagues, I greet you with respect. With today’s decree and the directives of our president, I am taking over from our minister. I would like to thank our ministers who have served so far. Our esteemed minister provided good services. They served diligently in cases of personal, property, fraud and irregular immigration crimes. We also saw these days in my 30th year. I thank God. I call it the Lord’s grace. God has blessed me not because I am superior to others. Our President was also instrumental. I thank them for giving me this task. I would like to thank our esteemed minister for his valuable services, I learned a lot from him. He was both our professional elder and our minister. I hope they will provide other services as well. When I started working in Çorum, I said that my intention was to leave this place on a good note one day.

Handover ceremony at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Justice! Minister Mustafa Çiftçi and Minister Akın Gürlek started their new duties | Video

FLAG CHANGE AT THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE

Highlights from Minister Tunç’s speech;

Today, we are honored and proud to hand over the task. Thank you for not leaving us alone. We have been with you for 2 and a half years. We experienced the honor and pride of working with the effort to strengthen the capacity of our judiciary. Türkiye did not neglect its democratic development. We managed to bury the tutelage mentality in history. We have made significant progress. Our country has made significant progress by constantly renewing our legislation and in line with the needs of the age. We have achieved a significant part of the goals. We worked with our colleagues to contribute in 2 and a half years to the distance covered in 23 years. We also initiated an investment move. We visited more than 60 of our 81 provinces and met with our citizens and fellow judges and prosecutors. We worked with the awareness that these duties are not a position but are entrusted to the nation. Today, my dear brother Akın Gürlek performed important duties. The Ministry of Justice will also carry these studies forward. We will protect the trust of the nation. Great progress has been made in every field and the foundations of the Turkish Century have been laid. We had important duties to take a step towards a terrorism-free Türkiye. There were efforts we made to make the process permanent. We carried out our work in coordination and conveyed it to the commission. We received the support of our deputies throughout our duty. They and we were both in the field. Our judicial organization is a young and promising organization. We would like to thank all our lawyers here. These duties are a changing of the guard. Continuing where we left off, our main goal is the satisfaction of the nation. I thank our President, we owe gratitude to our nation. There is little we can do for this beloved nation.

Highlights from Akın Gürlek’s speech:

Dear Minister, dear administrators of our ministry. I would like to express my gratitude to our president who entrusted us with this task. Under the leadership of our President, important reforms in the fields of law and justice were implemented. The demand for justice is the assurance of our 85 million citizens. We will continue the fight against crime by pursuing reforms with determination. “I come from within the judicial organization, I follow the problems of our fellow judges and prosecutors closely and I will make an effort to solve their problems.”

THEY TAKE AN OATH AT THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE GNAT

On the other hand, Minister of Internal Affairs Mustafa Çiftçi and Minister of Justice Akın Gürlek took the oath in the Turkish Grand National Assembly and officially started their new duties.

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Akın Gürlek, who was appointed to replace Minister of Justice Yılamz Tunç by the Presidential Decree published in the Official Gazette, takes office.

Highlights from Minister Tunç’s speech;

Today, we are honored and proud to hand over the task. Thank you for not leaving us alone. We have been with you for 2 and a half years. We experienced the honor and pride of working with the effort to strengthen the capacity of our judiciary. Türkiye did not neglect its democratic development. We managed to bury the tutelage mentality in history. We have made significant progress. Our country has made significant progress by constantly renewing our legislation and in line with the needs of the age. We have achieved a significant part of the goals. We worked with our colleagues to contribute in 2 and a half years to the distance covered in 23 years. We also initiated an investment move. We visited more than 60 of our 81 provinces and met with our citizens and fellow judges and prosecutors. We worked with the awareness that these duties are not a position but are entrusted to the nation. Today, my dear brother Akın Gürlek performed important duties. The Ministry of Justice will also carry these studies forward. We will protect the trust of the nation. Great progress has been made in every field and the foundations of the Turkish Century have been laid. We had important duties to take a step towards a terrorism-free Türkiye. There were efforts we made to make the process permanent. We carried out our work in coordination and conveyed it to the commission. We received the support of our deputies throughout our duty. They and we were both in the field. Our judicial organization is a young and promising organization. We would like to thank all our lawyers here. These duties are a changing of the guard. Continuing where we left off, our main goal is the satisfaction of the nation. I thank our President, we owe gratitude to our nation. There is little we can do for this beloved nation.

Highlights from Akın Gürlek’s speech:

Dear Minister, dear administrators of our ministry. I would like to express my gratitude to our president who entrusted us with this task. Under the leadership of our President, important reforms in the fields of law and justice were implemented. The demand for justice is the assurance of our 85 million citizens. We will continue the fight against crime by pursuing reforms with determination. I come from the judiciary, I follow the problems of our fellow judges and prosecutors closely and I will strive to solve their problems.

ID İletişim’s owner, Manager Ayşe Barım, was arrested for the Gezi Park protests. It was requested that Barım be sentenced to up to 30 years in prison for “aiding the attempt to overthrow the Government of the Republic of Türkiye or prevent it from performing its duties” regarding the Gezi Park protests. The undetained defendant Ayşe Barım, who was decided to be released under house arrest in the previous hearing, appeared before the judge at the Istanbul 26th High Criminal Court. According to previous hearings, it was noteworthy that famous names did not attend this hearing.

Aggravated life imprisonment was requested in the opinion

The hearing prosecutor, who presented his opinion during the hearing, requested an aggravated life imprisonment for Barım for “attempting to overthrow the Government of the Republic of Turkey or partially or completely preventing it from performing its duties by using force and violence.”

HE DEFENDED AGAINST THE CONSIDERATION

In her defense against the opinion on the merits, Ayşe Barım said, “I have been in a process that I have never been in in my life since the beginning of 2025. I have not committed any crime; I have not directed the players to Gezi Park. I have never taken a political stance in my life. I thank you for deciding to release me, taking into account my health condition. I am currently continuing my life with a pacemaker. The opinion about me has been prepared. This is while all the witness statements are in my favor and there is no concrete evidence.” “I do not accept the fact that the opinion was given. I am innocent; I express this once again. I have always been a citizen loyal to my country and I have only worked. I demand from you the right to live where I can deal with my health problems.” he said.

BARIM GIVES 12 YEARS AND 6 MONTHS IN JAIL

Ayşe Barım was sentenced to 12 years and 6 months in prison for ‘Aiding the Attempt to Overthrow the State of the Republic of Türkiye’. On the other hand, Barım hugged his lawyer and cried after the decision.

“OUR ASSEMBLY WILL PERFORM ITS DUTY SAFELY IN THE NEW PHASE OF THE PROCESS”

In his statement regarding the Terror-Free Türkiye process at the AK Party Group Meeting, President Erdoğan stated that the National Solidarity, Fraternity and Democracy Commission was about to complete its final report.

Expressing his belief that the report will be perfected with the constructive contributions of the political parties in the commission, Erdoğan said, “It is a fact that, following the announcement of the report, the political institution will have more duties and responsibilities. I hope our Parliament, which is the manifestation of the national will, will do its duty safely in the new phase of the process.”

As the AK Party, we will act with the awareness of responsibility as we have since the first day, and we will be more constructive and more encompassing than ever before. We will not hesitate to take responsibility for the permanent solution of this problem, which has an economic cost of 2 trillion dollars to our country alone. “Of course, in this process, we will never let our beloved martyrs, veterans and relatives of our martyrs, who are all examples of fortitude, bow down, and we will determinedly do what is right for Türkiye’s terror-free future,” he said.

According to the statement made by RTÜK, the Supreme Council, which convened to discuss the broadcast violations on the agenda, imposed sanctions on broadcasts that used swearing and slang expressions and targeted the family institution.

In the program titled “Money Politics” hosted by Ebru Baki on Halk TV, it was determined that Journalist Uğur Dündar used rude and slang expressions while evaluating the abusive conversations between CHP Chairman Özgür Özel and Keçiören Mayor Mesut Özarslan, who resigned from CHP. Having determined that the statement in question was broadcast clearly without any “bleeping or blocking”, RTÜK imposed a 2 percent administrative fine on Halk TV for violating Article 8 of the Law No. 6112 on the Establishment and Broadcasting Services of Radio and Television.

PUNISHMENTS WERE ALSO GIVEN FOR VIOLATIONS IN THE SERIES “JISKANMAK”

At the Supreme Council meeting, broadcast violations in the TV series “Jealous” broadcast on NOW television were also discussed. It was determined that some scenes and themes of the series damaged the family institution, normalized extramarital relationships and married individuals having children with others, and that this situation was portrayed as a positive thing and set a bad example for young viewers.

The Supreme Council, which also evaluated the complaints received at the RTÜK Communication Center, imposed a 3 percent administrative fine on NOW TV for violating Article 8 of the Law No. 6112 on the Establishment and Broadcasting Services of Radio and Televisions with its broadcasts.