The "fund plunder," which directly affected 500,000 small savers—about 2 million people in total—and caused approximately $20 billion in losses to the country's public finances, arose from the failure of financial oversight institutions whose heads are directly appointed by Erdoğan to do their jobs. It has since come to light that those who profited from it were largely senior executives, including former AKP ministers. This financial scandal, which has imposed a heavy cost on the national economy, is in essence a major political corruption scandal.

From the very beginning, the Workers' Party of Turkey (TİP) has waged an active opposition on this issue, demanding that all those responsible be prosecuted, that the cost of the scandal be borne by the culprits rather than the public budget, and that all officials who enabled this process be held accountable in court. We are sharing the text below with the international public to outline what this fund plunder is and what the Workers' Party of Turkey (TİP) demands.