The AKP has repeatedly been exposed for having made illegal membership registrations in the past. Now, a few weeks before the 14 May elections, a new fraud has emerged in Van. The AKP is making people members of its own party without their consent and knowledge. Some people in Van filed a criminal complaint against the AKP, after they found out to have been registered as members of the party without their consent.

Lawyer Cemal Demir said that there are many people who have applied to them to expose this situation and that they have taken the matter to the judiciary. "It is a known fact that the AKP has been illegally registering members for a long time, and that people are made members against their will and consent. Hundreds of thousands of citizens learned that they were made members of the AKP without their knowledge, especially after the e-government application made it possible to question political party membership.”

Complaining through e-government application

Lawyer Demir said: "After the news about the supposed 11 million AKP membership repeated this week, my client, who is a public official who is also a member of a democratic union, made a political statement through the e-state system. When he questioned his party membership, he surprisingly realized that he and his wife, who is also a public official, were made members of the AKP without their knowledge. They stated that they would immediately take legal action and file a criminal complaint in order to identify the people who made these false memberships. We know that there are thousands and even hundreds of thousands of similar fake memberships. Everyone should question their political party membership through the e-government application. If a false membership is detected, a criminal complaint must be filed.”