türkçe links to original Turkish article
(Sözcü Newspaper, 21 December 2025)
Maybe telling time is different for rich people.
Let Them Wear Timex! click here for some extravagant history
As millions of citizens in Turkey wrestle with tough economic times,
some expensive watches worn by AKP (ruling party) members of
Parliament at the recent budget hearings caught everyone's attention.
For example, Nebi Hatipoğlu, an İYİ Party transfer to AKP from
Eskişehir, came to the hearing sporting an Audemars Piguet watch
that costs $214.000 (!). Even a second-hand watch like this costs
around $175,000. Hatipoğlu's watch has a black ceramic frame
and a titanium cover and face.
Last year, AKP Group Chief Bahadır Yenişehirlioğlu created a
stir when his $20,000 Rolex Submariner watch was noticed. This
year, he was wearing a Cartier Santos Medium Stell model watch
at the budget hearing, worth a mere $8.000. Despite criticism,
Yenişehiroğlu vowed to continue wearing his watch (!).
Timex gives the same time!
The AKP party members' fascination with expensive watches
traces back to former AKP Minister Zafer Çağlayan, whose
$500,000 (!) Patek Philippe watch became a subject of
controversy during the "17-25 December 2014" bribery scandal
involving a number of AKP ministers and businessman Reza
Zarrab. Çağlayan claimed that he had paid Zarrab for the
watch.
Gets the job done a bit more economically.
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