Did they fly charter planes to the elections?

Official data showed that the AKP government did not rent planes and helicopters despite the race against time in February, when the earthquake disaster struck, but in March, when there was no need for urgent intervention, a lot of money was invested in rent. airplanes and helicopters. No explanation was given as to why the planes that were supposed to be chartered in February, when it became difficult to reach the earthquake area by land and aid was on the way, were chartered in March and where these planes flew to.

According to the budget execution data for the January-March period announced by the Ministry of Finance, state spending on aircraft rentals such as planes and helicopters remained at 1,000 liras in February and increased to extraordinary levels with 267,160,000 lire in march . This amount marks a record level compared to the months of March of previous years. In the last 5 years, the largest rental of planes and helicopters in March was made last year with 18.8 million lira. The highest rentals of planes and helicopters in February in the last 5 years were not made in 2023 when the earthquake occurred, but last year with 44.8 million lira.

WHERE DID THE PLANES FLY?

The official data, which did not include information on where to fly with planes and helicopters that were rented 1 month after the earthquake by paying large amounts of money, generated comments that tens of thousands of people may not have been in a hurry to reach the place. earthquake zone in the early days when they expected to be rescued.

While it is claimed that there may be elective flights to the earthquake zone with leased aircraft in March, it is also claimed that some of the payment for flights in February may have been moved to March.

He was also criticized in the fires.

The state leases privately owned aircraft and helicopters primarily for the purpose of responding to wildfires. Apart from this, rentals are also made for the national or international trips of the higher government. The data shows that the highest payments for aircraft and helicopter leases are made for firefighting purposes in July, August and September. In the forest fires that devastated the country in 2021, it was criticized that the aircraft leases were not made on time, so the fires could not be intervened in time.