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Turkey ex-football star on hearing for scornful Erdogan
- Updated: June 16, 2016
The counsel of Sukur told a justice in Istanbul that his customer had changed to a United States. PHOTO: REUTERS
TURKEY SUMMONS GERMAN ENVOY OVER ‘ANTI-ERDOGAN’ TV SONG / ISTANBUL: Former Turkey football star Hakan Sukur went on hearing in his deficiency Thursday on charges of scornful President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on amicable media.
Sukur is one of several thousand people including journalists, politicians and a occasional celebrity, to face identical authorised proceedings.
Opponents contend Erdogan has turn an increasingly polarising figure in Turkey given apropos boss in 2014, display 0 toleration for any critique on amicable media or on a streets.
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But a president’s supporters insist satisfactory critique is authorised and a line is usually drawn when it boils over into insults.
The counsel of Sukur, one of a stars of Turkey’s third place opening in a 2002 World Cup, told a justice in Istanbul that his customer had changed to a United States.
Ali Onur Guncel pronounced his customer could give testimony from a United States if justification supposing by a counterclaim was found to be insufficient.
According to Turkish media, Sukur had indicted Erdogan of burglary in a twitter in Feb 2015, but fixing him directly.
Prosecutors have asked in a complaint for Sukur to offer adult to 4 years in jail.
Sukur, a striker whose football career stretched from 1987-2007, was by distant a many inclusive goalscorer in a story of a Turkish inhabitant side, anticipating a net 51 times in 112 appearances.
His idea after only 11 seconds of play opposite South Korea in 2002 stays a fastest idea in World Cup history.
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After football, Sukur went into politics and was in 2011 inaugurated an MP with Erdogan’s statute Justice and Development Party (AKP).
But he quiescent in 2013 after a immeasurable crime examine that targeted Erdogan and his middle circle, siding with a transformation of his arch-foe, a US-based reverend Fethullah Gulen.
Sukur had uttered objections to a supervision pierce to close down schools run by Gulen’s transformation Hizmet.
His lawyer’s comments endorse that Sukur has left his home nation for a United States have finished doubt over his whereabouts.
Sukur had formerly insisted his participation there was merely proxy to learn English and open a football academy.
One of Istanbul’s many distinguished universities, Bilgi University, duration pronounced it had laid off a highbrow training in a communications expertise after she done remarks scornful Erdogan in a lecture.
The university pronounced in a matter a family with Professor Zeynep Sayin Balikcioglu had been cut and it no longer had any attribute with a academic.
Reports pronounced that a comments — where a educational is pronounced to have mocked Erdogan for being “the best in everything, in irritability and vulgarity” — had been personally available by a tyro during her lecture.