Turkiye’s Victory Celebration chief Umit Ozdag faces trial for ‘inciting hatred’ – INA NEWS

A courtroom in Turkiye has ordered the Victory Celebration chief Umit Ozdag to be held in custody pending trial on fees of inciting public hatred by means of social media.

Ozdag was detained on Monday for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over feedback wherein he stated “even crusades had not completed as a lot harm to Turkiye as Erdogan has”.

The occasion stated Istanbul’s Chief Public Prosecutor’s workplace launched Ozdag from custody on fees of insulting the president however subsequently ordered his arrest on fees of “inciting hatred and hostility among the many public”.

Prosecutors introduced 11 of Ozdag’s posts on X as proof towards him, the occasion stated. The prosecutor’s workplace additionally held Ozdag accountable for riots towards Syrian refugees final 12 months within the central Turkish province of Kayseri, throughout which a whole bunch of properties and companies have been attacked.

In a publish on X, Ozdag stated arresting him means arresting the folks he represents and people who are opposing the newest developments within the nation.

“Staff who needed to survive on minimal wage, retirees residing beneath the starvation threshold have been arrested! … You’ll be able to arrest me, however you can not silence me with out killing me!”

Ozdag, a 63-year-old former tutorial, is an outspoken critic of Turkiye’s refugee insurance policies and has referred to as for the repatriation of thousands and thousands of Syrian refugees.

Ozgur Ozel, the chief of the principle opposition Republican Folks’s Celebration (CHP), protested towards the arrest, saying the choice was a homicide of justice, a destruction of each democracy and judicial independence.

Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu additionally protested towards Ozdag’s arrest and stated this amounted to an intervention of politics within the judiciary.