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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s lawyer, Hüseyin Aydın, filed the petition for a criminal complaint with the Ankara Prosecutor General’s Office. In the petition, it was claimed that Geert Wilders insulted President Erdogan with his posts on his social media account and that the Turkish judicial authorities are legally authorized and in charge of the investigation to be carried out against the suspect. Stating that Wilders’ statements cannot be evaluated within the scope of freedom of thought and criticism, “The statements in the offending article are not mandatory and will not be accepted as an expression of opinion. The suspect is guilty of making statements and accusations that humiliated the President before public opinion and damaged his honor and dignity.
‘THE FIRST CRIME WAS COMMITTED’
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In the petition, recalling the relevant decisions of the Constitutional Court and the Court of Cassation on similar crimes, “The suspect, with his article addressed to our first elected president, used expressions that offended the honor, honor and dignity of our President , and the crime was publicly accused pointing to his personality, dignity and reputation. As it is clear that it reaches many people through the social networking site, the publicity element and the second paragraph have been produced, which is the qualified version of the crime, must be applied in the specific case.
