AKP’s former deputy Tuğrul Türkeş, the son of ultra-nationalist MHP’s founding chair Alparslan Türkeş, continues to take advantage of changing his allegiance to the AKP. Türkeş had resigned from the MHP and joined the AKP serving as a deputy Prime Minister for a while.

Tuğrul Türkeş has taken advantage of the AKP-MHP alliance and won the most important public tenders in the construction sector in Van for the last few years.

Türkeş receives the tenders through the front company Özkara Inc., which he founded within the knowledge of Turkish Minister of Interior Süleyman Soylu. Since the Özkara company has won many tenders, Türkeş acts carefully and gets many tenders through different companies.

The Özkara Mühendislik Inc. is a patented company in Ankara and is run by a contractor named Özcan Kara. Almost everyone in Ankara knows that Türkeş and Kara are doing business together.

However, after the AKP lost the 2019 elections, Türkeş and Kara have had their eyes on the tenders in Kurdistan. Following the dismissals of HDP mayors in August 2019, Türkeş and Kara have started to acquire enormous wealth by taking almost all construction tenders.

Türkeş’s company has been given the following tenders in Van and Hakkari since 2019:

-Military mass housing with 72 flats in Hakkari downtown

-Esendere TAŞKONAK Border Post

- Erciş Olympic Swimming Pool

-Zübeyde Hanım Street Prestige Street work, Çatak 89 TOKİ residences

OTHER TENDERS

It is reported that Tuğrul Türkeş, apart from above mentioned tenders, won many other tenders under different company names. The former AKP deputy is said to have made a million-dollar fortune through the last four tenders.

Tuğrul Türkeş has now made a new move to win the tenders for the Van national garden and the sports complex.