CHP Chair Kılıçdaroğlu files a criminal complaint against Çakıcı
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Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has filed a criminal complaint against Alaattin Çakıcı, who has recently insulted and threatened him in an open letter on social media.
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has appealed to the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office via his attorney Celal Çelik and complained about the remarks of Alaattin Çakıcı, who was previously arrested for and convicted of leading a criminal organization and was released from prison on April 15, 2020 after the Parliament passed "the law of criminal execution" to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in prisons.
Çelik has announced the criminal complaint on his social media account. "We have filed a criminal complaint of 'insult' and 'threat' against criminal organization leader Alaattin Çakıcı, who is a 'so-called mafia," the attorney has said and added, "We will call [him] to account for the rudeness."
What happened?
In his speech at the Parliamentary group meeting, Kılıçdaroğlu addressed Devlet Bahçeli, the Chair of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), and said, "He criticizes the CHP very often because he has been assigned with being a watchman." He also asked, "Will you stop releasing mafia leaders and drug traffickers while imprisoning criminals of thought?"
Following this statement, Alaattin Çakıcı shared a statement on his Twitter account and warned Kılıçdaroğlu "to watch his step." He also threatened the main opposition chair by saying, "If you equate traitors with Bahçeli, you will make the biggest mistake of your life."
After this statement was shared with the public on social media, several prominent figures from the CHP, including CHP Parliamentary Group Deputy Chairs Engin Altay and Özgür Özel, Spokesperson Faik Öztrak and Ankara MP Levent Gök have denounced the statement.
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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