PM Continues Sueing Journalists
Lastly, PM's lawyers applied to court against journalist Tuncay Ozkan on grounds he assaulted PM's personal rights in a TV programme broadcasted in Kanalturk television.
Lawyers Fatih Sahin and Muammer Cemaloglu claimed that Ozkan insulted PM Erdogan during the programme broadcasted on January 7 and demanded damages amounting to 10 thousand YTL (around 5 thousand euros).
There are two other pending cases filed by PM's lawyers against Ozkan on the same grounds related to programmes broadcasted on different dates.
On another account, journalist Ergun Babahan, columnist in the daily Sabah, is acquitted on the case filed by Baskent University Dean Prof. Dr. Mehmet Haberal.
Haberal pressed charges claiming that Babahan insulted him in his column published on June 18 last year.(EO/EU)
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