Based on this information, write a new short title in English: The budget of the Cyprus Foundations Administration has been approved – BRTK

CRepublic Assembly Economy, Finance, Budget and Planning Committeeapproved the Cyprus Foundations Administration’s 2025 budget of 500 million 986 thousand TL by majority vote.

Before discussing the budget of the Foundations Administration, the Economy, Finance, Budget and Planning Committee of the Assembly of the Republic received information from the institution officials about the financial and administrative situation of the Turkish Cypriot Electricity Company (Kıb-Tek), which is among the institutions administratively affiliated with the Prime Ministry.

Minister of Finance Özdemir Berova said that Kıb-Tek management came to the committee upon the request of CTP and informed the MPs about Kıb-Tek’s budget and other issues, and added that the discussed Kıb-Tek budget has not been approved by the Council of Ministers yet.

Berova stated that the Kıb-Tek budget, which will be discussed at the meeting to be held at the Ministry of Finance, will be revised if necessary and sent to the Council of Ministers.

Then, the budget of the Foundations Administration was started.

-Incirli

Speaking about the budget of the Foundations Administration, CTP Deputy Sıla Usar İncirli noted that Evkaf is one of the most important and internationally recognized institutions of the country and touched upon the activities of Evkaf.

Stating that Evkaf has deviated from its goals for a long time, Incirli explained that the total budget of Evkaf and Religious Affairs is over 1 billion TL and is higher than the budgets of many ministries, departments and institutions.

Stating that foundations should be much more sensitive about how the money is spent, Incirli noted that the amounts of items such as personnel expenses and service purchases are very high. Incirli also asked what services were received regarding service procurement.

Stating that 45 million TL was allocated for the maintenance and repair of real estate, İncirli noted that energy expenses were also quite high.

Incirli, “Are the foundations deviating from their purpose and engaging in activities and spending money outside of this?”, “Where does this money go?” he asked the questions.

-Barçın

CTP Deputy Devrim Barçın criticized the amount transferred by the Foundations Administration to the Department of Religious Affairs, and examined the expenses of the Foundations Administration and questioned the increasing expenses.

-Tumer

Cyprus Foundations Administration General Director Prof. Dr. Mustafa Tumer, Regarding service recruitment, he said that there are many vacancies in the staff, that they have started a staffing study and that they want to recruit good service recruits to the staff.

Noting that the maintenance and repairs of real estate are generally mosque repairs, Tümer said that new investments have also been made and therefore security and cleaning expenses have been increased.

Following the speeches, the Foundations Administration Budget was approved by majority vote.

The committee then discussed the budget of the Department of Religious Affairs.