Speaking on the proposal, İYİ Party Samsun Deputy Erhan Usta said, "Look, compare retirees with employees, the minimum wage, the hunger line; we are causing serious suffering. 'Sir, the number is too high, we do not have budget opportunities, what can we do, we have to cut back from here.' If you didn't steal, friend. The budget had the means in 2002, why doesn't it have the means now? If there is this much corruption in an economy, you will put the entire blame on the retirees. 'The retired should be patient, the retired should tolerate, the retired should wait.' While he was saying "Such a thing is impossible, such a thing is unacceptable", AK Party Uşak Deputy İsmail Güneş intervened and said, 'Who stole, who stole?' The master then said, "Look, as I shared last time; because of the theft of 1.5 billion dollars related to Iraqi oil, my state will pay compensation in case someone will steal there and put money in their pockets, and moreover, 30 billion dollars is waiting in the bag."
While there was a reaction from the AK Party ranks to the words of IYI Party Master, AK Party Izmir Deputy Yaşar Kırkpınar called for an application to the prosecutor's office if there is evidence. AK Party member Güneş stated that the number of retirees increased from 6.5 million in 2002 to 17 million in 2026. Usta said, "If the number of retirees increases, then let them die. Look, AK Party's Uşak MP says, 'The number of retirees is too high. What should retirees do, let them die? I am complaining about you to the citizens, don't talk like that. There were already people who said, 'They live too much.'"
'YOU ARE IMPOSING THE WRONG POLICIES ON THIS COUNTRY'
While the tension was rising in the commission, AK Party's Güneş brought up the issue of those stuck in retirement, İYİ Party's Usta said, "EYT was the right decision, I stand behind EYT, I am the biggest architect of EYT's emergence in this country. What was wrong was theft, theft. Your stealing was wrong. Now, there is the thing of slipping out of budget," while AK Party's Güneş said, "It happened to Mr. Bahçeli, it also happened to Bülent Ecevit. "Why didn't you object to the law passed in 1999? You are imposing the wrong policies on this country. We are not saying 'Pension is high', we are objecting to what you say is 'Stolen'," he said. İYİ Party's Master called out to AK Party's Güneş, 'Don't jump, don't jump.'
Gunes from the AK Party, who took the floor after different MPs, addressed IYI Party's Master again and said, "I have a word for Master Erhan, he says, 'You are a thief.' I return that exact word to him. Now, there is a story that you also know. He was eating two but someone said, 'Why are you eating two or two?' he said, and he said, 'How do you know that I ate two or two?' 'That's how I eat,' he said. Now, people feel what the other person feels. Therefore, he is not here either. He said the same thing: 'You are stealing,' he said. İYİ Party Adana Deputy Ayyüce Türkeş Taş stated that she did not accept the statements made and that İYİ Party Master was not at the meeting.
SİNEMA GENERAL MANAGER GÜVEN: SİNEMA IS IN INTENSIVE CARE
Then the articles of the proposal were discussed. Speaking about the items for the cinema industry in this section, Cinema General Manager Birol Güven said, "We were a country where 77 million tickets were sold before the pandemic. This number dropped to 29.7 million in 2025. We have very bad predictions for 2026. Cinema is in a really difficult situation, it is getting very bad. I want to talk about our cinema budget. I will give two examples, one of them is a very high example. I want to talk about France. The budget that France allocated to cinema supports in 2023." 720 million Euros, Türkiye's budget for cinema support in 2023 is 720 million and 5 million Euros. We also have an obligation to support big screen cinema. Currently, our average ticket price in Türkiye is 250 lira for foreign films and 212 lira for domestic films. Of course, we know that there are cinemas that sell very expensive tickets. 212 lira for domestic films. Also, Turkey was one of the few countries that beat American cinema. In other words, 60 percent of our audience went to Turkish films. We lost this too, now this rate has dropped to 40 percent. If this money is recorded in the general budget, we can only use it in 2028. If this money comes in 2028, I don't think cinema has that much time, really.
'WE EVALUATE THAT THE EXISTING PROPOSAL DOES NOT INCLUDE AN ADDITIONAL AUTHORITY'
Cyber Security President Ümit Önel spoke about the articles regarding the institution in the proposal as follows;
"When we look at the proposal, we evaluate that the guarantees have not been weakened. The reasons are not up to the discretion of the administration, they are limited to the catalog in Article 22 of the Constitution. With the perspective that the decision should be submitted to the court within 24 hours, if the judge does not approve it within 48 hours, the decision will be automatically dismissed without the need for any action by the administration, that the administrative lawsuit that will be considered as a priority is open against every decision, that is, the maximum life of the uncontrolled measure is limited. In short, we see that there is no additional existing authority with the proposal, it has not been introduced. "We are evaluating it," he said.
The commission meeting continues with discussions on the articles.