Accountability Must Be Demanded Over the Fund Scandal: “The End of the Road Is in Sight”

Written by Kemal Albayrak, 20th–21st Term Member of Parliament for Kırıkkale and one of the Founders of the AKP…

They say those involved in the fund scandal should be exposed by the opposition and the media, but the government is running away. Apparently, this is an extremely difficult matter for the government. When the robbery takes place inside your own house, things become complicated. Children are afraid of the dark, while unscrupulous thieves are afraid of the light.

Dear opposition, organize meetings based on common principles with the Anatolian movement and expose those responsible for the robbery. Tell people about these thieves in the most remote provinces, districts, villages and civil society organizations. Let the people wake up. Let this nation recognize the hypocritical thieves who appear devout but engage in corruption. Demand accountability from those who steal the people’s rights and return what belongs to the people. This must be the legitimate struggle. Do not allow the issue to be pushed off the public agenda!

Can humanity be expected from those who perform their prayers but are perpetrators of dirty dealings, or from those who fast while consuming forbidden wealth like pigs? Aren’t those protecting them the same hypocrites?

The legal status and all personal entitlements, including employment-related rights, of everyone involved in fund corruption, including guilty members of parliament, must be revoked by law. People without honor or character cannot be expected to represent the nation. Can the state and its institutions be governed by thieves? Can there be justice? It is shameful. They have destroyed public trust. Even remaining in positions of authority is a crime. Can such people be held responsible for anything?

A helicopter crashes and our heroes are martyred. Someone goes out and kills unsuspecting citizens with a gun. Workers die in factory explosions. Yet the gangs involved in the fund robbery remain undisclosed. As evil grows like an avalanche everywhere, where is the government? Was this what the country was supposed to become?

Can this beautiful country be governed through polarization? Religious profiteers are plundering the nation’s resources and depriving workers, retirees, young people, tradespeople and every segment of society of their rightful share through organized criminal networks and corrupt circles aligned with those in power. While innocent and vulnerable people, intellectuals, journalists, scientists, opposition politicians and artists are left to languish in prisons, pro-government associates involved in the robbery are protected.

Isn’t this arbitrariness? Is this justice? Is this a state governed by the rule of law? Those responsible must be held accountable. The institutions have been brought to their knees.

In psychiatry, there is a concept known as the “illusion of pardon.” A person sentenced to death may cling to the illusion that they will be pardoned at the very last moment, even shortly before their execution.

The AKP’s efforts to escape accountability for the fund scandal demonstrate the same illusion, but it is futile. The system can no longer be sustained. Even fear no longer lets them sleep.

“The end of the road is in sight,” as Musa Eroğlu sings.