content tagged with Fuat oktay

Announcement on Erdoğan's health

Announcement on Erdoğan's health

The Presidency Communications Director, Fahrettin Altun, made an announcement yesterday evening rejecting claims made related to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's health. Erdoğan is to join the ceremony in the Akkuyu nuke plant today via teleconference.

‘Economic crisis, poverty push people to religious cults’ courses, dorms in Turkey’

HDP’S OYA ERSOY

‘Economic crisis, poverty push people to religious cults’ courses, dorms in Turkey’

HDP İstanbul MP Ersoy has submitted a Parliamentary question to Vice President Fuat Oktay and asked him about the sexual abuse of seven children at a boarding Quran course in Turkey’s eastern province of Erzurum.

15 December 2021

Vice President files a criminal complaint against main opposition leader Kılıçdaroğlu

‘CALL TO BUREAUCRATS’

Vice President files a criminal complaint against main opposition leader Kılıçdaroğlu

Vice President Fuat Oktay has filed a criminal complaint against CHP Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu over his video where he made a call to bureaucrats.

19 October 2021

HDP brings missing people to Parliamentary agenda

HDP brings missing people to Parliamentary agenda

HDP MP Kerestecioğlu raises concerns that the fate and whereabouts of Gülistan Doku, Hürmüz Diril, Mehmet Bal, Yusuf Bilge Tunç and Hüseyin Galip Küçüközyiğit have been unknown, asking the reason for not carrying out an effective investigation.

14 September 2021

Turkey condemns Charlie Hebdo over cartoon of President Erdoğan

Turkey condemns Charlie Hebdo over cartoon of President Erdoğan

Vice President Oktay and Communications Director Altun have slammed Charlie Hebdo magazine over a recent cartoon about President Erdoğan. Vice Minister of Culture Çam has also responded on Twitter with French swearwords.

28 October 2020

Vice President Oktay: We closed 119 media outlets by statutory decrees

Vice President Oktay: We closed 119 media outlets by statutory decrees

Answering the Parliamentary question of HDP MP Orhan, Vice President Oktay has announced that 53 newspapers, 20 magazines, 24 radio channels and six news agencies have been closed by statutory decrees since the coup attempt on July 15, 2016.

2,807 Citizens Evacuated from Europe, Quarantined in İstanbul, Kocaeli

2,807 Citizens Evacuated from Europe, Quarantined in İstanbul, Kocaeli

Vice President Oktay has announced that the evacuation of 2,807 citizens who wanted to return to Turkey from nine European countries has been completed as of 6 a.m. today.

Vice President to Trump: Turkey is Not a Country to Act According to Threats

Vice President to Trump: Turkey is Not a Country to Act According to Threats

Turkey's military offensive in Syria will help refugees returning home, Oktay has suggested.

Press Cards of 1,954 Journalists Canceled

STATEMENT BY VICE PRESIDENT OKTAY

Press Cards of 1,954 Journalists Canceled

The Vice President has announced that press cards of 1954 journalists have been canceled in the past three years. CHP MP Sertel has said that occupational organizations should be included in the press card commission.

19 December 2018

14 Questions for the President, 1 Sentence Answer from His Deputy

14 Questions for the President, 1 Sentence Answer from His Deputy

HDP MP Danış Beştaş asked in 14 questions, where, when, how, why, in exchange of what, for what price, the controversial Boeing 747-8 was purchased for the President. Yesterday it was answered in one sentence: "It is a present."

2 November 2018

Paylan: Those Whom You Have Enemized are My Relatives

Paylan: Those Whom You Have Enemized are My Relatives

Deputy President Oktay has said, “We don’t respect decisions of the parliaments which give into Armenian diaspora and ban arguments of Turks”. Commenting on the remark for bianet, HDP’s Paylan has said, “Those whom you've enemized are my relatives".

1 October 2018 Evrim Kepenek