Turkey's first agenda item is Presient Erdoğan's Canal İstanbul project.
CHANAL ISTANBUL TO BRING PROFIT TO OUR COUNTRY
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan: "There are rights that the Canal Istanbul to gain them for Turkey. In the Bosphorus, dry cargo ships and tankers have always been hit by the mansions. At any moment it is a danger and a threat to the environment. However, once with Canal Istanbul, these threats will almost disappear, and will also have a serious return to our country."
THIS SPENDING BRINGS RISK
Felicity (Saadet) Party General Chairman Temel Karamollaoğlu, criticizing the Canal Istanbul project, "no matter where you go anywhere in the world Suez Canal, Panama Canal can not be compared. Canal Istanbul does not benefit, this spending brings risks."
"EVERYONE SAYS NO BUT A PERSON SAYS I WILL"
CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, arguing that the project will harm the environment, "the engineer says no. Environmentalists say no. Everyone says no but one person says 'I will'. They said that they betrayed Istanbul. Just because the economy is not discussed, the problems of citizens to be discussed so that a Channel is going to Istanbul."
"Since the beginning I have opposed the project"
Former Prime Minister and Chairman of the Future Party Ahmet Davutoglu, about the Canal Istanbul project, "I told him that I was against the project from the beginning. I conveyed my concerns to the President in January 2018 and conveyed my views on the abandonment of this project."
"EXPLAINED WHY AGAINST THE PROJECT WITH 15 ARTICLES"
Istanbul Metropolitan Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu explained why he opposed the Canal Istanbul project, which he called the Disaster project, in 15 articles.
İmamoğlu listed the items as follows: "Thirst, Earthquake Risk, Massacre of Nature, Plundering Istanbul's history, new tax burden of at least 110 billion TL to 82 million, 23-35 billion unnecessary costs to municipality, Income dream, Traffic congestion, 50-year excavation, 1.2 million new population to Istanbul, imprisoning 8 million population to an island, Montreux dream, to destroy the Black Sea fish, to destroy spirituality, not to love this nation."
CRITICISM TO ECONOMIC CONTRIBUTION AND FINANCE
Vatan Party leader Doğu Perinçek fell apart with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Canal Istanbul. Doğu Perinçek's newspaper Aydınlık objected to the project in the Canal's strategic dilemmas. He directed multidimensional criticisms of the project from his contribution to finance and finance.
WE THINK IT IS A BENEFIT ACCOUNT
Felicity Party Istanbul Provincial President Abdullah Sevim, Canal Istanbul is said to increase the 500 thousand population, but I think they do not leave here with a population of 500 thousand. We think there is a benefit account. The reason why they cannot give up the Canal Istanbul is benefit.
"WE TIE OURSELVES TO TREES, DO NOT ALLOW THE MASSACRE"
YEAR 2011 - HAS Party Chairman Numan Kurtulmuş: Canal Istanbul Project in the days were project announced he said, "we were tie to the trees, we still do not allow the massacre of nature."
YEAR 2011 - Devlet Bahceli: "Those who robbed Istanbul and turned it onion are now talking about some things as a crazy project (Canal Istanbul).
YEAR 2019 - Bahceli: Those who oppose Kanal Istanbul are non-national.
WE NEED INDUSTRY AND TECHNOLOGY
Former Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan, "We need investment in industry and technology, not our canal project."