CHP's Gürer: Türkiye has been dragged to the point of 'enforcement at the door'

CHP Niğde Deputy Ömer Fethi Gürer stated that the number of new files coming to enforcement offices via UYAP between January 1 and July 4, 2025 increased by 10.2 percent compared to the previous year, reaching 5 million 121 thousand, and said, “A total of 23 million 928 thousand pending files reached enforcement offices during this period. Enforcement is becoming normal in Turkey, it is being dragged to the point of ‘enforcement is at the door’.”

Ömer Fethi Gürer stated in his statement that the debts of SMEs, farmers and citizens have increased. Noting that the individual loan and credit card debts of citizens to banks and financial institutions increased by 96 billion 200 million liras in the week of June 20-27, reaching 4 trillion 788 billion liras, Gürer stated that the total debt, including the debts to asset management companies and TOKİ, reached 4 trillion 947 billion liras.

Ömer Fethi Gürer stated that during this period, individual loan debts increased by 33 billion 400 million liras to 2 trillion 476 billion liras, and credit card debts increased by 62 billion 800 million liras to 2 trillion 311 billion liras, and that there was an increase of 21.6 percent, or 850 billion liras, in individual debts compared to the end of 2024.

"INTEREST PAID ON CREDIT CARDS IS 188 BILLION 500 MILLION"

Ömer Fethi Gürer said, "Since the beginning of 2025, there has been a 71 billion lira increase in individual loan and credit card debts taken into enforcement proceedings by banks. This year alone, there has been a 63.8 percent increase. According to Central Bank data, citizens' debts to TOKİ have reached 80 billion lira, while their debts to asset management companies have reached 79 billion lira. In the first five months of 2024, citizens paid 460 billion 1 million lira in interest to banks due to individual loan and credit card debts. This figure increased by 50 percent compared to the same period last year. The interest paid on individual loans has reached 271 billion 600 million lira, while the interest paid on credit cards has reached 188 billion 500 million lira."

Gürer also touched upon enforcement files, saying, "The number of new files coming to enforcement offices via UYAP between January 1 and July 4, 2025 increased by 10.2 percent compared to the previous year, reaching 5 million 121 thousand. During this period, a total of 23 million 928 thousand pending files reached enforcement offices. Another 1 million 602 thousand files were added in the last year alone. In this sense, Türkiye is being dragged to the point of 'enforcement at the door'."

SMEs’ ​​DEBTS TO BANKS INCREASED

Noting that the loan debts of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to the banking sector increased to 4 trillion 852 billion liras in May, Gürer reported that the debts of SMEs taken into enforcement proceedings due to failure to pay on time increased by 1 billion 200 million liras to 117 billion 100 million liras.

"THE DEBT OF FARMERS IS 1 TRILLION 30 BILLION LIRA"

Ömer Fethi Gürer said, "Farmers' debt to banks increased by 21 billion 700 million lira in May and reached 1 trillion 30 billion lira. 6 billion 900 million lira of this debt was taken into enforcement proceedings because it could not be paid on time. 812 billion 900 million lira of the loans given to the agricultural sector are from public banks and 217 billion 300 million lira are from private banks."

Ömer Fethi Gürer said that due to the mistakes in economic policies, the employment of workers has decreased, retirees have difficulty making ends meet and tradesmen are experiencing financial difficulties, and noted the following:

"According to the Agricultural Laws, the support that should be given to farmers in 2025 should be 1 percent of the national income of 615 billion lira, but unfortunately 135 billion lira was given. The negative effects of agricultural frost and drought disrupted the income-expenditure balance of farmers.

The retired have difficulty getting by with the salary they receive. When the minimum wage expectations were not met, the purchasing power of the workers decreased. The fact that farmers and workers do not shop from tradesmen if they do not have money has also caused difficulties for the tradesmen. Currently, the problems experienced by farmers, workers, tradesmen, retirees, disabled people, industrialists, in other words, almost all of the people in our country have turned into a tangle of problems due to the mistakes in economic policies. The government should start looking for a new path from the path it has followed and implemented; it should produce solutions to the problems of farmers, workers, tradesmen, retirees, disabled people, and industrialists.

While high interest rates are particularly challenging for industrialists and SMEs, workers and retirees are experiencing significant financial difficulties due to low income. Farmers have become unable to make a profit in production due to the disruption of the income-expenditure balance due to product losses caused by frost and drought. Instead of changing the agenda, creating perceptions, and focusing on different areas, the political power should focus on finding solutions to the people's problems; the people are really in great trouble."