Özgür Özel to pay compensation to Erdoğan

AKP Chairman and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's non-pecuniary damages lawsuit, filed through his lawyer Hüseyin Aydın against CHP leader Özgür Özel due to statements made during a press conference held at the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM) on December 17, 2020, has been finalized by the 25th Civil Chamber of the Ankara Regional Court of Justice.

Özel has been sentenced to pay 50 thousand Turkish Lira in non-pecuniary damages to President Erdoğan.

WHAT HAPPENED?

Özel, who was the CHP Group Deputy Chairman at the time, had used the following expressions during his press conference at the Parliament:

"Recep Tayyip Erdoğan calls the opposition the 'fifth column.' This has no place in democracy. You come to power through democracy, and at the end of 18 years, you take refuge in the rhetoric of the Spanish dictator Franco. Shame on you! Our nation will show this wannabe dictator the ballot box in the first election and send him off just as he came."

Following these statements, President Erdoğan had filed a compensation lawsuit worth 250 thousand Turkish Lira.

News Source: AA