The Republican People's Party (CHP) raised serious doubts about whether Ahmet Burak Erdoğan, the eldest son of the Turkish president, has completed his military service.
The question was tabled by CHP MP, Usak Ezkan Yalım.
According to the MP, there are various reports in the press claiming the eldest son of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Ahmet Burak, avoided military service with a fake medical report.
"We ask if Ahmet Burak Erdoğan, the son of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has done his military service? If so, in what period of time?", the MP questioned.
"If Ahmet Burak Erdoğan was actually excluded from military service, what was the reason for the dismissal? In which hospital was this report prepared?", the opposition MP emphasized in his question to the Turkish Minister of Defense.
This is not the first time that Erdoğan's eldest son has had negative publicity in Turkey.
The darkest page in his personal history was in 1998 when he hit a car driven by famous Turkish singer Sevim Tanürek, who later succumbed to her injuries in a Constantinople (Κωνσταντινούπολις, Turkish: İstanbul) hospital.
Ahmet Burak allegedly did not have a driver's license and abandoned his victim. However, he was never punished.
Ahmet Burak, now 39, owns the shipping company MECİT ÇETİNKAYA DENİZCİLİK Ltd, which reportedly owns a $80 million tanker.
Although CHP and the Turkish president have some differences, they are united in their attempts to one day annex Greece’s Eastern Aegean islands.
Earlier this year, Sözcü, a newspaper with Kemalist ideology and friendly to CHP, said that the island of Agathonisi belongs to Turkey’s Tralleis (Τραλλεῖς, Turkish: Aydın) province, showing that when it comes to aggression and hostilities against Greece, there are no differences between the so-called “Western and progressive” CHP Kemalists and the Islamists loyal to Erdoğan.
In April, Sözcü writer Saygı Öztürk immediately said in his article that “Greece is getting ready to train its soldiers with real bullets on our islands in the Aegean,” claiming that the islands of Pserimos (Ψέριμος) and Agathonisi (Αγαθονήσι), inhabited solely by Greeks, are actually Turkish.
The Turkish opposition influencer continued with his delusions without shame and said that “in the Aegean, Greece, which occupies 18 Turkish islands and 2 Turkish islets, armed 16 islands.”
