Turkey’s Post Office executives buy luxury outfits with state budget

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Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Mersin MP Alpay Antmen stated that Turkey’s Postal Services (PTT) executives have bought themselves luxury coats and shoes and recorded them as expenses to the PTT, according to reporting by HalkTV.

Antmen said that the state-run PTT bought coats worth 8,000 liras each and shoes worth 7,000 liras each for the department heads, six days after the Feb.6-dated earthquakes. 

"Did you go skiing in the earthquake zone with this 8,000 liras worth of ski coat for which you made the PTT pay?" Antmen tweeted, displaying images of Ali Yaz, the head of the PTT's Human Resources Department, wearing these coats in quake-torn southeastern Turkey.

Antmen also stated that the PTT has been experiencing serious material shortages in its offices lately and the organization's workers have been working under harsh conditions.

“When we come to power, we will open the PTT to the audit of the Court of Accounts," he said. 

The Court of Accounts is the supreme governmental accounting body of Turkey responsible for the comptrolling of public accounts and the auditing of the accountancy of the political parties, in accordance with the Constitution.

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