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Fatih Erbakan attacks plans to privatize bridges and highways

From Cumhuriyet · () Turkish

Translated from Turkish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • New Welfare Party leader Fatih Erbakan criticized the government's plan to include bridges and highways in a privatization program.
  • He said the assets were being treated as "golden-egg-laying hens" and warned that selling existing bridges would show the state of Turkey's economy and country.

Fatih Erbakan, leader of Turkey's New Welfare Party, has reacted sharply to the inclusion of bridges and highways in the privatization program.

He said the government was putting up for sale what he called the country's “golden-egg-laying hens,” referring to its highways and bridges.

Erbakan added that if the process had reached the point of selling bridges built during the Özal and Demirel periods, “we say, ‘What a state this economy is in, what a state this country is in.’”

In the end, if it has come to selling the golden-egg-laying hens, these highways and bridges, then we say, 'What a state this economy is in, what a state this country is in.'

· Fatih ErbakanThe New Welfare Party leader criticized the inclusion of bridges and highways in the privatization program.
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