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.

Provocation from CHP MPs! They set up a barrier in front of Minister of Justice Akın Gürlek: They prevented him from taking the oath | Video

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.

THEY TOOK AN Oath DESPITE THE OBSTACLES OF CHP MEMBERS

After what happened, Parliament Deputy Speaker Bekir Bozdağ took a 10-minute break from the session.

After the break, Gürlek and Çiftçi took the oath among AK Party deputies and officially started their duties.

After the chaos, the meeting was suspended for another 15 minutes.

“WE WILL CONTINUE WITH DETERMINATION A CONFIDENTIAL UNDERSTANDING OF JUSTICE”

On the other hand, Minister of Justice Akın Gürlek, in his post on his NSosyal account, expressed his gratitude to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for entrusting him with such an honorable duty as the Ministry of Justice.

Minister Gürlek noted the following in his post:

“In line with the vision of the Turkey Century, we will resolutely pursue a transparent, accountable and trustworthy understanding of justice, based on the principles of the rule of law, judicial independence and impartiality. We will continue our work to further raise human rights standards without compromising our uncompromising stance in the fight against crime and criminals.”

Stating that he will strive to further strengthen the trust in justice in consultation with members of the judiciary, academia, bar associations, non-governmental organizations and the nation, Gürlek thanked Yılmaz Tunç and his colleagues, who have carried out the task devotedly until today.

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

Akın Gürlek, who was appointed as the Minister of Justice with the signature of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, made the first post on his x account after taking over the ministry post.

Expressing his gratitude to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for entrusting him with such an honorable duty as the Ministry of Justice, Minister Gürlek said, “In line with the vision of the Turkey Century, on the basis of the principles of rule of law, judicial independence and impartiality, we will resolutely pursue a transparent, accountable and trustworthy understanding of justice. Without compromising our uncompromising stance in the fight against crime and criminals, we will continue our work to further raise human rights standards.”

“WE WILL EFFORT TO FURTHER STRENGTHEN THE TRUST IN JUSTICE”

Stating that the members of the judiciary will strive to further strengthen the trust in justice, in consultation with the academy, bar associations, non-governmental organizations and the nation, Gürlek said, “I would like to thank our Minister and his colleagues who have carried out this duty devotedly so far; on this occasion, I would like to express my gratitude to our President once again. I wish him the best of luck for our beloved nation.”

I would like to express my gratitude to our President, Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who entrusted me with such an honorable duty as the Ministry of Justice. In line with the vision of the Türkiye Century, on the basis of the principles of rule of law, judicial independence and impartiality; transparent, accountable and trust… pic.twitter.com/KFQQktyilp

— Akın Gürlek (@abakingurlek) February 11, 2026