Dear Vahdettin Ertaş, the president of the SPK (the Capital Markets Board of Turkey), I have briefly explained the criminal complaints and the answers to them in such a way that even a high school graduate could understand.

There are more important issues to explain.As you well know, my brother was put in prisonon the premise of your criminal complaints. He has been in prison for months now.

You have instructed the trustees, who are already sitting on my family’s fortune;trustees who are not the owners, the shareholders or the board that the shareholders appointed, but are only temporary trustees who hold temporary authorisation.

You have instructed them to use the right and authority of the general assembly that these trustees have never had; the right that only the shareholders have;the right that my family and my group have; you have instructed them to open a debt collection lawsuit against us and asked for a provisional injunction to stop us accessing our personal fortune. But there isn’t ‘a debt’, at least not one that has been established anyway.

 

And you hold academic credentials.

 

You have students, and respected colleagues in the SPK who have high ranking careers.

 

You have a loving mother and maybe siblings, too.

 

What are you saying?

 

The law and people’s legal rights don’t matter, ‘This man is a member of the ‘parallel state’, so murdering this family is mandatory; whatever harm we maydo to them is forgivable:it’s allowed. Is that what you are saying?

 

Do you think that you can murder someone to justify another murder?

 

People have suffered in sorrow, they are suffering now, to a degree you could never imagine, Sir.

 

All these things you have done are irreversibly sealed forever in your life story.

 

Please reassess our situation with your board, based on the explanations and the defence we have given.

 

Of course, there is no problem, if looking at what you have made us live through, you can say in all honesty, that you are completely sure, you have right on your side;

You can comfortably look your family, your students’, and your colleagues’in the eye with pride.

 

The price you have to pay for living a decent life might sometimes be high, but those who have dignity have no choice but to pay the price.