Alaattin Çakıcı sentenced to prison for threatening main opposition leader Kılıçdaroğlu
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The court has handed down its ruling in the trial of Alaattin Çakıcı over his remarks about main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. Convicted of leading a criminal organization, Çakıcı has been given a prison sentence for threat and insult.
The court ruling has been shared with the public by Kılıçdaroğlu's lawyer Celal Eren Çelik on his social media account. Referring to Çakıcı, who was released from prison on April 15, 2020 with the amendment of the Law on Criminal Execution, the lawyer has said:
"We said that we would ensure the penalization of Alaattin Çakıcı, who hurled threats and insults against our [party] chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu! We have kept our promise. As of today, he has been sentenced to 1 year, 8 months in prison in total on charges of insult and threat."
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'I think it will change at the appeals court'
Alaattin Çakıcı has made a statement about the prison sentence on his Twitter account. Noting that he has applied to the appeals court, Çakıcı has referred to the local court which has handed down the ruling and said, "They probably didn't examine some parts about me."
Expressing his "belief" that the ruling "will change" at the court of appeals, Çakıcı has defined the statement of Kılıçdaroğlu's lawyer Çelik as "meaning a court ruling with pressure by using his political power."
Briefly about Alaattin ÇakıcıHaving fled Turkey in 1992 with the help of a false passport, Alaattin Çakıcı was caught on 17 August, 1998 in a hotel in Nice, France. Deported to Turkey and arrested, Çakıcı was released from the prison on December 1, 2002. Although he was not allowed to leave Turkey and his passport was confiscated, he fled from Antalya to Greece. Alaattin Çakıcı stayed four-and-a-half months in Paris and Strasbourg in France. On October 14, 2004, Çakıcı was deported from Austria at the request of Turkey's Ministry of Justice. He was brought from Vienna to Istanbul. After the ensuing trial, he was imprisoned in a high security prison in Tekirdağ prison. After his return to Turkey, Çakıcı was reportedly put on trial, and found guilty of the following crimes: Three years and four months' imprisonment for his contract to shoot the renowned journalist Hıncal Uluç, as he had written a newspaper column about him and his wife Uğur Kılıç whom he was about to divorce; three years and four months' imprisonment for organized crime in relation with the gunned assault on March 26, 2000 to the club local of Karagümrükspor in Istanbul; nineteen years and two months' imprisonment for his contract to murder his ex-wife; ten years and ten months' imprisonment for the gunned assault at the speculator Adil Öngen's car. *He was released after Bahçeli's visit Convicted of leading a criminal organization and suspected to have links with the National Intelligence Organization (MİT), Alaattin Çakıcı had been behind bars for 16 years when he was released from prison on April 15, 2020 after the Parliament passed the law of criminal enforcement amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Two years earlier, when the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the MHP were about to form the People's Alliance ahead of the general elections, MHP Chair Develt Bahçeli made a call for general amnesty on Twitter by also mentioning Çakıcı. He was released two years after this call. *Source: Wikipedia, BBC |
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