(Anadolu) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday lodged a criminal complaint against Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders over an insulting tweet.
The president’s lawyer Huseyin Aydin filed the complaint over Wilders’ insulting contents targeting Erdogan.
In a criminal complaint submitted to the Office of the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor, Aydin called the leader of Party for Freedom “suspect” and said his insulting remarks are “criminal libel” and “cannot be evaluated under freedom of express[ion].”
“Suspect Wilders, in his content targeting our first [directly] elected [by public] president, used expressions insulting the honor and dignity of our president, and committed the crime publicly by targeting his personality, dignity and reputation,” it was stated in the complaint.
