Turkey’s Main Opposition Leader Faces Fresh Probe, Lawsuit over Remarks Criticizing Erdoğan - Stockholm Center for Freedom
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Turkey’s main opposition leader faces fresh probe, lawsuit over remarks criticizing Erdoğan - Stockholm Center for Freedom
Turkey’s justice minister announced on Wednesday that prosecutors have opened an investigation into main opposition leader Özgür Özel over comments he made criticizing President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkish Minute reported. Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç said the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office initiated the probe after Özel, leader of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), made what he described as “insulting remarks” about the president. …
The President of Turkey, Recep Tayip Erdoğan, filed a new defamation suit against the leader of the Turkish opposition, Ozgur Ozel, the leader of the Republican People ' s Party (DPP), this time demanding a million lire for moral damage because of the speech that Ozel made at the Bairampasha rally, as well as the statement to the press made by the opposition after his release from Marmara prison. In April, Erdoğan had already filed a simila…
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