OR Association of Industrialists and Businesses of Turkeythe well -known Tüsİad, at yesterday’s General Assembly of the Union, openly criticized the Turkish government for corruption, judicial inconsistency, and institutional decline, urging judicial independence to restore the trust and stability of the public.

This is not the first time that the powerful union of the richest industrialists and businessmen in the country has targeted the Turkish government. Yesterday, however, criticism covered a wide range of issues that are plaguing today’s Turkey. The President of the Supreme Council of Tüsİad Omer Ara and the Chairman of the Board of Directors Orhan Turanwhich were speakers at yesterday’s General Assembly, listed one by one the many problems facing Turkey, economically, social and political, such as uncontrolled inflation, the appointments of managers to the municipalities, the female, the devastating work accidents, the extensive corruption and the corruption The arrests of politicians, businessmen, journalists and mayors. Behind all these problems, said Orhan Turan, lies the collapse of confidence in the legal system and the need to restore the rule of law to Turkey.

A union with a long history

The union of Turkey’s strongest industrialists and businessmen has a long history, was founded in 1971 and today lists 1,300 members, including Koch and Sabadzi families. With the rise of Tayyip Erdogan to power and the emergence of young businessmen with a Muslim background, the alternative union of independent industrialists and businessmen Turkey, MüsİAD, supported by the ruling party, was created.

Intense reaction of the Minister of Justice

Yesterday’s statements by Tüsiad executives caused the strong reaction of Turkish Justice Minister Yilmaz Tundz, who, although admitting that it was a democratic right for civil society organizations to express their views, their efforts emphasized, to direct them. Justice and politics “are contrary to the spirit of democracy and the principle of the rule of law”.