Minister Soylu sues daily Cumhuriyet, demands 1 million lira in damages
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Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has filed a lawsuit for non-pecuniary damages against Cumhuriyet newspaper over the news about himself; Soylu has demanded 1 million lira (~115 thousand USD).
Soylu's lawyer Uğur Kızılca has made a statement about the issue and said that the newspaper published a total of 313 news reports and articles, 254 of which were directly about Soylu, in 254 days.
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Kızılca has argued that the news targeted the personality rights of Soylu, were purely fictional and sham and contained insults and libel.
According to the lawyer, "considering the gravity and inacceptability of the systematic attack faced by Süleyman Soylu for 52 days, the fact that the attack was publicly carried out in such a way to reach a wide audience, the points made in the sham news and the fact that these points were apparently made in the news knowingly and willingly and the insistent systematic attack of the related newspaper, a lawsuit was filed against daily Cumhuriyet by appealing to the Ankara Civil Court of First Instance with the demand for 1 million Turkish Lira in non-pecuniary damages."
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Soylu threatened Cumhuriyet
Amid the allegations of Sedat Peker, who is accused of leading a criminal organization, in his videos, Cumhuriyet reported on what came after these allegations on its front page with the title "Deep Relations."
Compounding the abbreviations of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Soylu threatened the daily, saying:
"Casting aspersions on the most Glorious Commander of our history of counterterrorism with the delusions of a mafia jerk and taking revenge for its partner HDPKK, Cumhuriyet newspaper; your history is the history of deep, dirty and dark relations. Turkey is not the old Turkey.
"You will be brought to account before the law."
Bir mafya pisliğinin hezeyanlarıyla
— Süleyman Soylu (@suleymansoylu) May 11, 2021
terörle mücadele tarihimizin en Şanlı Komutanına çamur atan,
ortakları HDPKK için intikam alan,
Cumhuriyet gazetesi; Sizin tarihiniz, derin, kirli ve karanlık ilişkiler tarihidir
Türkiye eski Türkiye değil
Hesabını hukuk önünde vereceksiniz
(KÖ/SD)
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