Acquittal in Ümit Özdağ case

Zafer Party Chairman Ümit Özdağ was tried as part of a case opened on charges of "publicly insulting the president." The prosecution had requested a prison sentence of up to four years and eight months for Özdağ for the alleged crime.

COURT ISSUES ACQUITTAL

According to information provided by Ceylan Sever, the court ruled for the acquittal of Özdağ in the case. With this decision, Özdağ has been cleared of the charges brought against him.

The statements by Özdağ that were the subject of the trial were also included in the case file. Özdağ's statements, which were evaluated within the scope of the investigation, were recorded as follows:

“No Crusade has been able to make the Turkish nation deist, atheist, or Christian. During the Erdoğan era, large segments of the Turkish nation began to grow cold toward their religion because of those who deceive in the name of God, and during the Erdoğan era, the rate of deists and atheists exceeded 16 percent.”

Özdağ used the following expressions in his statement:

“No Crusade has been able to make the Turkish nation deist, atheist, or Christian. During the Erdoğan era, large segments of the Turkish nation began to grow cold toward their religion because of those who deceive in the name of God, and during the Erdoğan era, the rate of deists and atheists exceeded 16 percent.

Erdoğan should know that the cadres who founded the Republic did not attack the faith, history, and culture of the Turkish nation; on the contrary, Atatürk and his comrades-in-arms protected and developed the faith, history, and culture of the Turkish nation.

It is Recep Tayyip Erdoğan himself who attacks the faith, culture, and history of the Turkish nation and learns history from a madman in a fez.”