Police officers went to Yonca Verdioğlu Şık’s home in Beyoğlu and informed her that an investigation was being conducted against her by the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office. She was subsequently taken to the Istanbul Courthouse in Çağlayan, following a medical examination, to give a statement.
In a statement posted on TİP’s X account, the party said:
“Our fellow MP Ahmet’s wife, Yonca Şık, has been taken into custody. Our message to those trying to cover up their theft with shamelessness and their injustice with lawlessness is clear: You cannot intimidate us with detentions, sham trials, lies, slander, and threats. You will leave; we will remain.”
The main points of the party’s statement are as follows:
“The MP who has been investigating the ‘Fund Embezzlement’ case, which has exposed how the savings of millions of our citizens were stolen, involving AKP officials, and who has continuously informed the public about it, as well as submitted parliamentary questions to AKP ministers, has repeatedly received threats demanding that he stop his work and close the Fund Embezzlement investigation.
It appears that Minister Gürlek has instructed the judiciary and law enforcement agencies under his authority to take action. We do not merely condemn the detention of Yonca Şık, the wife of our Istanbul MP Ahmet Şık, on the basis of a fabricated allegation that has no apparent connection or justification. We regard it as an overtly immoral act, resorted to by this mafia-like system, which recognizes neither political ethics nor the public conscience, in an attempt to escape the desperation into which it has fallen.
We call on all politicians and officials, particularly the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, to take immediate action against this attack, which violates both the law and basic moral principles and has been directed at Yonca Şık, the esteemed wife of our MP Ahmet Şık. We urge them to issue the strongest possible warnings to those who are trampling the country's judicial and law enforcement institutions underfoot in order to protect their own personal political futures, and to put a stop to their actions.
We call on all our people, our friends in the press, and our comrades to join the vigil for justice that we will begin at the Çağlayan Courthouse, in solidarity with our friend Yonca Şık.”
