Şamil Tayyar calls for release of 214-person fund list: 'No need for excuses'

Journalist Şamil Tayyar called for the disclosure of the 214-person list concerning the three funds announced by the TMSF, and issued the call: "There is no need for excuses, please disclose this list." Tayyar recalled that, according to information released by the TMSF, 214 individuals and legal entities made a profit of 187 billion 653 million lira from the three funds.

Tayyar stressed that when the "fund list" is mentioned, what is meant is not the list of people who were victims, but the names, not yet known, of those who obtained unjust gains through the funds. According to the TMSF, there are 455,578 fund victims; Tayyar stated that it is not the disclosure of these people's names that is being sought.

Citing data announced by the Minister of Justice, Tayyar wrote that 214 people — 141 individuals and 73 legal entities — made 187 billion 653 million lira in profit from the three funds, and that this is the list whose disclosure is being demanded. Tayyar argued that roughly half of the list has already been reflected in the public domain, with 100-150 people remaining.

The non-disclosure of the list is being defended on the grounds of the "right not to be tarnished," the "need to enact a new law" and the "presumption of innocence." Tayyar responded with the question: "Was a law enacted when the other names were disclosed?"

Tayyar noted that the names of thousands of people who could not pay their taxes have been disclosed, giving the examples of Mustafa Sarıgül, Muhittin Böcek and Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya. Asking where the presumption of innocence and the right not to be tarnished were, Tayyar noted that "there is no one left who has not learned even the color of Mustafa Sarıgül's underwear," that there is no subject concerning Muhittin Böcek's son and daughter-in-law that has not been written about, and that Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya's entire life was picked apart.

Arguing that there is a segment of society saying "no vote if the fund list is not disclosed," Tayyar gave the example of the village headman of a remote village in Şehitkamil, Gaziantep: "When will you notice these reactions that have reached as far as a mountain village?"