The AKP Gaziantep deputy Mehmet Erdogan through his social media account shared his opinion about the priest Andrew Brunson, said that Brunson is a US military. Erdogan also claimed that during the occupation of Iraq by the US, Brunson was commander of operations to plunder Iraq's gold.
AKP Gaziantep deputy Mehmet Erdogan also shared his photographs of Iraqi people who were identified as Andrew Brunson in his share and dropped the following note: "Give back what you stole in Iraq".
AKP Gaziantep deputy Mehmet Erdogan made a remembrance to the priest Brunson that the US has brought the occupation of Iraq to the agenda again revealed the wrongness of the AKP government's Iraq policy.
The AKP government, which supported the US occupation of Iraq, brought the 1 March permition, prepared in order to support the US in Iraq, to the Turkish Grand National Assembly in 2003, but the bill was rejected. In this process, the National Opinion Leader Prof. Dr. Necmettin Erbakan's had to call AKP Deputies one by one to tell them that it was a mistake and that they should not support the bill.
Ali Babacan, who is the Minister of State for the period, tried to provide assistance by telling the AKP's economic assistance to the US if the tribunal passed from the Assembly. Babacan, "When Bush orders 'Shoot', 8.5 billion dollars to be sent to Turkey as a bridge loan of 8.5 billion dollars," he said.
On the other hand, Recep Tayip Erdoğan, the Prime Minister of the period, made serious pressures for the passage of the AKP's rulings and could not succeed. 30 days after the rejection of the 1st March dissertation in the Parliament, the statements issued by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on 31 March 2003 in the American Wall Street Journal, "I pray for the heroic male and female American soldiers to return to the home safely."