President Erdoğan sues CHP MP Tuncay Özkan for 250,000 liras in damages over ‘snob’ remark
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Turkish President and Justice and Improvement Social gathering (AKP) chief Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on August 26 sued Tuncay Özkan, the İzmir deputy of the primary opposition Republican Folks’s Social gathering (CHP), over his “snobbish” remark.
On August 25, Özkan quoted Erdoğan’s feedback on his social media account, because the latter accused the opposition of “benefiting from morality” and “being elitist.”
In his speech in Van, Erdoğan mentioned, “For years (the opposition) tried to lecture us on the atmosphere, now they’re robbing Istanbul’s most useful environmental treasure for the cash lords. Behind the masks of populism, an elitism of ostentatiousness emerged, having fun with themselves in European capitals with the individuals’s cash. They don’t have any agenda aside from their very own political prospects, their very own future, and their very own private pursuits.”
The submit cited by Özkan solely gave the next remark of Erdoğan addressing the CHP: “Present-off elitists.”
Özkan then known as Erdoğan a “snob,” saying that the latter is the one who’s a “show elitist” for staying within the “palace.”
“You’ve 13 planes. You reside a lifetime of luxurious. You’ve convoys of automobiles within the nation and overseas. In 22 years, you have got been the celebration of the wealthy by making individuals poor. You’re the celebration that mocks the poor and needy. You’ve the greenback billionaires. The dungeons are ours, the palaces are ours, we are the ones exhibiting off? Are you jealous? You’re a palace snob!,” Özkan addressed Erdoğan.
You fucking snob!
Sit within the palace, sit on the throne, let {dollars} and billions be your toys, wastefulness and extravagance are your companions, the wealthy are your pals, do you name us “hooked on concern”? You’ve 13 planes. You’ve the luxurious life. You’ve a convoy filled with automobiles at residence and overseas. 22…
— Tuncay ÖZKAN (@ATuncayOzkan) August 25, 2024
Özkan’s feedback provoked an enormous response among the many AKP figures as they instantly known as for motion from the judiciary.
“Mr. A president is a pacesetter who grew up from inside our nation. He has devoted his life to an amazing and robust Turkey. The inappropriate and ugly statements in opposition to our President… are by no means acceptable,” mentioned Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç, “condemning” Özkan.
Tunç added {that a} judicial investigation has been initiated in opposition to Özkan.
An investigation has been launched by the Izmir Chief Public Prosecutor’s Workplace in opposition to Izmir Deputy Tuncay Özkan, who insulted and slandered our President, Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on social media.
Our esteemed President is a pacesetter who has grown from the guts of our nation.…
— Yılmaz TUNÇ (@yilmaztunc) August 25, 2024
AKP Spokesman Ömer Çelik thought-about Özkan’s feedback to be “a political and ugly lack of morality.”
Merely, the phrases of a CHP member of parliament, devoid of political morality and a monument of ugliness, in direction of our President, is that this individual holding a mirror to himself.
The one who speaks on this model has longed to be remembered with these adjectives all through his life in Turkish political life.
This CHP Member of Parliament…
— Ömer Çelik (@omerrcelik) August 25, 2024
“Tuncay Özkan asshole!!!,” mentioned AKP MP and former Inside Minister Süleyman Soylu.
For us, Erdogan shouldn’t be solely the President but additionally the elder and the top of our household…
We perceive that you just imply all of us with this assertion and what you’re upsetting.
Tuncay Özkan filth!!!
Don’t be concerned, you’ll proceed to obtain solutions within the language you perceive…— Süleyman Soylu (@suleymansoylu) August 25, 2024
One other AKP MP, Mahmut Rıdvan Nazırlı, insulted Özkan and known as him a “sn of ast.”
Erdoğan’s lawyer Hüseyin Aydın introduced on August 26 that Erdoğan filed a lawsuit in opposition to Özkan, demanding fee of 250,000 liras as compensation for non-monetary damages.
A lawsuit for non-monetary damages of 250 thousand TL has been filed in opposition to CHP Izmir Deputy Tuncay Özkan due to his baseless and nugatory statements concentrating on our President.
As well as, a grievance petition was submitted to the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Workplace for insulting the President.— Hüseyin Aydin (@hsynaydn) August 26, 2024