Hearse, Loaned Trans-Turkey, Doesn't Care Whose Body's In It

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(Sözcü Newspaper, 23 July 2020)

                A fine example of desegregation.

When CHP (opposition party) Mayor Vefa Salman was removed 

from office in Yalova, he was replaced by AKP (ruling party)

municipal council member Mustafa Tutuk.  

Now, Tutuk is demanding that the hearse that Yalova loaned to the

Ardahan municipality on the opposite side of Turkey for a year be 

returned even though the term of the loan has not been completed.  

For his part, Ardahan's CHP Mayor Faruk Demir, whose city has

no hearse of its own and who took over a heavily indebted city 

from his AKP predecessor, insists he will not return the hearse until

the loan term is fulfilled.

Demir explained that "Continuity is the basis of government. This

is not some remote, wild place. I won't return the hearse until the

term expires. The hearse doesn't only carry CHP bodies, it carries

AKP bodies, MHP bodies and HDP bodies.  I don't have another

hearse. If I did I'd return this one today."