58 million people will go to the palace daily

The 2026 budget bill will be submitted to the Turkish Grand National Assembly on October 17. The presidential budget will increase by 26 percent to 21 billion 286 million lira in 2026. This year's spending, which is more than 39 million lira per day, will increase to 58 million lira per day with the 21.2 billion budget in 2026. According to the Medium Term Program (MTP), the presidential budget, which is 16 billion 928 million lira this year, will increase by 26 percent to 21 billion 286 million lira in 2026. The 2026 budget allocations target an expenditure of 18.9 trillion lira. 60 percent of the expenditures will go to interest and debt payments. CHP Deputy Chairman Burhanettin Bulut had announced that according to budget realization data, the palace spent 39 million 806 thousand lira per day this year.

PERSONNEL AND SALARY PAYMENT

According to data from the Ministry of Treasury and Finance, the Presidency's expenditures in the eight months leading up to August this year reached 9.219 billion Turkish Lira. The projected budget for the entire year is 16.928 billion Turkish Lira. The Palace's personnel expenses in 2026 will be 4.502 billion Turkish Lira. The fact that 2.784 billion Turkish Lira of the Presidency's budget is allocated to salary payments this year, and a projected 4.502 billion Turkish Lira for this budget in 2026, indicates a significant increase in personnel numbers.

The number of personnel in the Presidency, which was 1,216 during the Ahmet Necdet Sezer period and 0.316 during the Abdullah Gül period, reached 2,538 at the beginning of 2025. The increase in the intervening period is unknown.

Privatization continues at full speed

Privatization revenues, which are 21 billion lira this year, are projected to increase ninefold next year. The 2026 privatization revenue target has been raised to 185 billion lira. Privatization revenues, which were 18 billion lira in 2024 and 21 billion lira in 2025, are planned to reach 185 billion lira in the 2026 budget, an 11-fold increase compared to 2024 and an approximately 9-fold increase compared to 2025. The extraordinary increase in the 2026 privatization revenue target indicates that the sale of the last remaining public assets will be accelerated.