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Kurdish politician files complaint against mayor on claims of insult over slapping incident
Kurdish politician Ferhat Encü has filed a criminal complaint against an opposition party mayor in northwestern Turkey for allegedly insulting him in comments about...
Turkish Interior Ministry to file complaint against opposition mayor over anti-Syrian remarks
Turkey’s Deputy Interior Minister İsmail Çataklı on Wednesday said the ministry would file a criminal complaint against an opposition mayor in southern Turkey for...
Opposition party to file criminal complaint against Turkish Central Bank governor
Turkey's opposition Homeland Party (MP) has announced that it will file a criminal complaint against Turkish Central Bank Governor Şahap Kavcıoğlu and members of...
Turkey’s forestry minister faces criminal complaint for handling of wildfires
A prominent lawyer has filed criminal complaints against Turkish Agriculture and Forestry Minister Bekir Pakdemirli and several ministry bureaucrats due to their poor handling...
Erdoğan, son-in-law face complaint about claims of guns delivered on coup night
Lawyers from a small opposition party in Turkey have filed criminal complaints against seven people including President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his son-in-law Berat...
Turkey’s interior minister files complaint against mafia boss, demands investigation
Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has demanded an investigation into allegations raised by a notorious mafia boss about him and filed a criminal complaint...
TurkStat files complaint against research group, alleges tweaking of inflation figures
The Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) has filed a criminal complaint against the independent Inflation Research Group (ENAG) on accusations of manipulating the country’s inflation...
Opposition MP files complaint against police chief over inaction on strip-search claims
Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, an MP from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and a human rights activist, has filed a criminal complaint against Mesut...
Journalist faces investigation due to remarks targeting Syrian refugees
The İstanbul-based International Refugee Rights Association has announced that it will file a criminal complaint against a famous Turkish journalist due to his remarks...
Turkey’s religious affairs director faces criminal complaint over anti-LGBT sermon
The Human Rights
Association (İHD) of Turkey has filed a criminal complaint against Professor
Ali Erbaş, head of the Turkish Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet), for
remarks targeting...
Turkey’s Erdoğan files criminal complaint against French Le Point magazine
Lawyers for Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan have filed a criminal complaint against French
magazine Le Point journalists for allegedly insulting him, according to the
state-run Anadolu...
Former PM Davutoğlu faces criminal complaint over remarks about terror events in 2015
A criminal complaint
has been filed against former Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu on charges
of failing to report a crime to the authorities due to...