115 billion donations not included in the audited fund: There is a heart, there is no audit
The gap regarding the control of the resource of 115 billion lira raised with the Turkey One Heart aid campaign could not be resolved.
AKP did not include one-hearted campaign funds within the scope of the Disaster Reconstruction Fund, which was prepared to heal the wounds of the earthquake disaster and presented to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. AKP MP Cemal Öztürk stated that money pledged or raised through sincere campaigning will not be included in the disaster fund, which will be subject to independent audit with the Court of Audit audit.
According to the draft law on the Disaster Reconstruction Fund, which is expected to be discussed in the General Assembly of Turkey’s Grand National Assembly this week, both the income to be obtained through donations, the budget and loans, as well as the destination of this income will be announced to the public on a regular basis every 3 months.
Öztürk of the AKP, who presented the proposal to the Planning and Budget Committee of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, gave the guarantee of bilateral control, and requested that donations of 115 billion lira promised in the campaign be included in the fund. . Saying that they were unable to obtain information such as how much of the money promised by the One Heart campaign was raised, where it was kept, and how much was spent where, opposition MPs asked if this money would be included in the new fund.
Öztürk responded to these questions: “The money raised will not be transferred to this fund. I no longer know if it is for AFAD or similar institutions, but that money is something that goes beyond the purpose of this fund. It’s not my location. “I don’t know how much $115 billion or $120 billion is in this fund that I’ve proposed, that relief money is not going to pass through,” he said.
‘At least public money should be transferred’
Cevdet Yılmaz, Chairman of Turkey’s Grand National Assembly Planning and Budget Committee, suggested that individual donations cannot be interfered with, but that at least the money committed by the Central Bank and public banks should be included in the fund to disasters. However, this proposal from Yılmaz, who had previously served as a minister and deputy prime minister, was not accepted.
When Cemal Öztürk insisted that only the next aid would be included in the fund, concerns about control of the 115 billion relief funds raised by One Heart donations could not be resolved.