CHP Kayseri Deputy Çetin Arık explained the high-speed train adventure of Kayseri with documents. Arık stated that many AKP members announced at every opportunity that the Kayseri-Ankara High Speed Train Project was finished and that it was at the tender stage, but that no concrete steps had been taken yet. I asked the minister, they said they are waiting for foreign financing loan approval. YHT has become a Lie-Story Train in the hands of the AK Party,” he said.
According to the news of Müslüm Evci from SÖZCÜ; “CHP Kayseri Deputy Çetin Arık argued that Kayseri's high-speed train adventure is the AKP's false chronology.
“Both the President and the Prime Minister PROMISED TO KAYSERİ”
In the first days of 2022, at the event organized by the AKP authorities under the name of the Investment Evaluation Meeting for the Year 2021, a written question was submitted to the Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Adil Karaismailoğlu, upon the words of AKP Deputy Chairman Mehmet Özhaseki regarding the high-speed train that "Credit work is over". Arık said:
“In January, they came together with the press and gave the good news that the loan was approved and the tender would be held. I asked the minister, they said they are waiting for foreign financing loan approval. YHT was the Lie Story Train in the hands of the AK Party. The titles of AKP members have changed, their parties have changed, but the lie told to Kayseri has never changed. For example, AK Party Chairman Erdoğan promised Kayseri as both prime minister and president. For example, AK Party Deputy Chairman Özhaseki promised as both the Mayor of the Metropolitan Municipality and the Balance of Environment and Urbanization, as well as a deputy and AK Party Deputy Chairman.”
DATE DATE YHT EXPLANATIONS OF AKP PEOPLE
Cetin Arık, describing the YHT statements made by AKP members, said:
Minister of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications Binali Yıldırım stated that the Kayseri High Speed Train tender will be held at the Provincial Congress of his party in June 2013, and said that the people of Kayseri will travel by high-speed train in 2016 at the latest.
On November 29, 2013, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Taner Yıldız stated that they were working together with all deputies to bring a high-speed train to Kayseri, and that they were making efforts to include the project in the investment program.
AK Party Group Deputy Chairman Mustafa Elitaş made a statement to Kayseridergi, the publication organ of Kayseri Thought and Progress Association (KAYSERİDER), on January 29, 2014 and said, "I hope the high-speed train line will be finished by 2023."
On October 27, 2014, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated that they decided to connect Kayseri to Sivas-Ankara line and gave good news.
On October 26, 2014, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said in Kayseri, “We will dig for the Yerköy-Kayseri high-speed train line in Kayseri within the next year.”
On January 26, 2015, AK Party Kayseri Deputy Yaşar Karayel said that on January 26, 2015, the High Speed Train project's decision was completed by the High Planning Board, and the tender will be made and the foundation laid within the year.
Karayel could not keep pace, he said that the project was included in the investment program on February 18, 2015 and that the tender will be held in 2015, Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Mehmet Özhaseki also supported Karayel and stated that the progress reached is pleasing for Kayseri. He got a little excited and brought a second High Speed Train project to Antalya via Nevşehir on the agenda.
Feridun Bilgin, Minister of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications, who came to Kayseri on October 20, 2015, unaware that the projects before him gave the good news that the projects were completed and that they would be put out to tender, heralded that the project would be completed by the end of 2016 and the tender would go out.
On January 25, 2016, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan gave the good news that the line will end in 2020.
Answering our question at the Planning Budget Committee on 3 November 2017, Minister of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications Ahmet Arslan said, “Ankara-Kayseri high-speed train project is important in terms of entering the records, the project is over, we will go out to the construction tender in December and the part up to Yerköy of 143 kilometers. It is already being built in Ankara-Sivas, and I hope we will have completed the 142-kilometer section from Yerköy to Kayseri in three to three and a half years, this was a statement we said before.”
On January 11, 2018, the headline of the Kayseri newspapers was the good news of the Minister of Environment and Urbanization, Mehmet Özhaseki. Özhaseki said, “The distance between Kayseri and Ankara will be 1,5 hours” and that the work will start in the middle of 2018.
Speaking at the Kayseri Governorship in February 2018, Minister of Environment and Urbanization Mehmet Özhaseki said, “A part of this line was the Ankara-Yerköy line. We will use the 160-kilometer line jointly. Starting from Yerköy, 142 kilometers of the Şefaatli-Kayseri line has been designed as electrical, double track and signaled. Hopefully, the construction will start after the tender is made on March 8. Thus, our citizens who will travel from Kayseri to Ankara with these 250 kilometers speed trains will reach Ankara in 1 hour and 15 minutes. If they want, of course they will continue as far as Istanbul. "A person going from Kayseri to Ankara will not change trains," he said.
Speaking at the Kayseri Chamber of Commerce on May 30, 2018, Minister of Environment and Urbanization Mehmet Özhaseki once again made a statement and said that the foundation of the tender will be laid in 2018.
On December 17, 2018, Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Mehmet Cahit Turhan said that the tender will be held after the financing is obtained in 2019.
On October 3, 2019, Minister Turhan said, “There is no clear date, our tender preparation works continue. We are planning to make the tender next year when the project is completed and finished, and when it becomes clear. Hopefully, our target is 2023”.
Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu, in his response to our written question on March 11, 2020; He said that the project work was completed and he would go out to tender.
On 20 August 2020, I asked the Minister of Transport and Infrastructure with a written question. In the reply given by the Minister on 13 October 2020; He said, “The project work has been completed and will be done with external financing”.
Adil Karaismailoğlu, Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, who visited Kayseri in December 2021, said, “We started the tender process for the Yerköy-Kayseri high-speed train line, and we will finish it this month”
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