Famous movie actor İlyas Salman said to Işıl Çalışkan from our newspaper in an interview last year, “I don't consider Tayyip Erdoğan worthy of the presidency because he is a cheap man.” A lawsuit was filed against him for ‘insulting the President’. Salman said, “I know that I will go to court for this,” after he said these words during the interview.
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AKP President Erdoğan's lawyer Ahmet Özel filed a criminal complaint against İlyas Salman to the prosecutor's office, claiming that the phrase ‘cheap man’ is an insult, DW Turkish's Alican Uludağ reported.
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The petition claimed that Salman's remarks were intended to humiliate Erdoğan and that Salman was trying to discredit her client in front of the public.
İlyas Salman, whose statement was taken at the prosecutor's office as a suspect within the scope of the investigation on November 11, 2022, denied the charges. Salman said, ’I do not accept that there is a criminal element in the content. In the Republic of Turkey, which is a secular, democratic, parliamentary and social state of law, it is my most natural right to express my thoughts about the President or any person, and this is not a crime. The words used in the content also do not carry an element of crime. The expression “cheap man‘ can only be considered as a vulgar expression.’.
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However, the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office filed a lawsuit against Salman. The indictment alleged that Salman committed the crime of insulting the President by using these words. Salman's trial will begin at Istanbul 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance on Tuesday, October 10.
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What did he say?
In an interview published on August 1, Salman responded to Işıl Çalışkan's question “Which issues worry you about the country in this period?” as follows “For example, I worry about Tayyip the most. When I describe Turkey, I say, ‘It is a country where those who are not worthy are in important positions.’ I don't consider Tayyip Erdoğan worthy of the presidency because he is cheap. That's why I plan to go to court.”