276 million went to the Sudan adventure
Producers and growers in Türkiye have become unable to produce due to high costs and insufficient support. Farmers who take to the streets almost every day are throwing away their worthless products while citizens are struggling with high food inflation. The agricultural project in Sudan, which the AKP presented as a solution to this situation, ended in fiasco. The damage to the project initiated by former AKP Minister of Agriculture Bekir Pakdemirli has begun to come to light. It was announced in the TBMM Public Economic Enterprises Commission that 276 million liras were spent on lands rented for agricultural production in Sudan. The project was canceled in 2023 without any production.
'WE WILL FIND OIL IN VAN'
While the TİGEM Report was being discussed in the Parliament, CHP Çorum Deputy Mehmet Tahtasız brought up the lands rented in Sudan and asked, “This is like the oil in Gabar, what happened when we were going to put it in the tractor and continue? We had found natural gas in the Black Sea, what happened?” Tahtasız said, “Your neighbor’s chicken looks like a goose to you. You tried to do agriculture in Sudan, which is 3 thousand kilometers away from Türkiye. It ended before it even started. You offended the Turkish farmers and sought adventure in Sudan.”
AKP Van Deputy Kayhan Türkmenoğlu, instead of responding to the Sudan project in Tahtasız's words, referred to the Gabar oil. Türkmenoğlu said, "We are discussing agriculture and Sudan here, but you are talking about Gabar. We have also drilled in Van Muradiye, God willing, we will extract oil, it was our dream for 85 years. This is the first time drilling is being done this year and we will extract oil."
They said, 'It's a matter of vision'AKP minister Bekir Pakdemirli said when the lands were acquired, "As the Turkish government, we will have taken every step to establish a model farm and model production."
The Turkish Sudan International Agriculture and Livestock Joint Stock Company, established for the AKP’s agricultural project in Sudan, was liquidated by a presidential decree at the end of 2023. Established in 2015, 80 percent of the company belonged to the General Directorate of Agricultural Enterprises of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, and 20 percent to Sudan. Despite the opposition’s harsh criticism of this project, the then Minister of Food, Agriculture and Livestock, Faruk Çelik, said in 2017 that it was a matter of vision.
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