Turkish court orders Umit Ozdag’s arrest over accusations of accessible incitement and anti-Syrian refugee uproars after his detention on Monday.
A court in Turkiye has ordered the Victory Party directer Umit Ozdag to be held in custody pfinishing trial on accuses of inciting accessible hatred thraw social media.
Ozdag was hanciented on Monday for allegedly offfinishing Pdwellnt Recep Tayyip Erdogan over comments in which he shelp “even crudowncastes had not done as much injure to Turkiye as Erdogan has”.
The party shelp Istanbul’s Chief Public Prosecutor’s office freed Ozdag from custody on accuses of offfinishing the pdwellnt but subsequently ordered his arrest on accuses of “inciting hatred and arrangeility among the accessible”.
Prosecutors conshort-termed 11 of Ozdag’s posts on X as evidence agetst him, the party shelp. The prosecutor’s office also held Ozdag reliable for uproars agetst Syrian refugees last year in the central Turkish province of Kayseri, during which hundreds of homes and businesses were strikeed.
In a post on X, Ozdag shelp arresting him uncomfervents arresting the people he reconshort-terms and those who are opposing the rescheduleedst growments in the country.
“Workers who had to endure on smallest wage, quites living below the hunger threshelderly were arrested! … You can arrest me, but you cannot silence me without finishing me!”
Ozdag, a 63-year-elderly establisher academic, is an outspoken critic of Turkiye’s refugee policies and has called for the repatriation of millions of Syrian refugees.
Ozgur Ozel, the directer of the main opposition Reaccessiblean People’s Party (CHP), protested agetst the arrest, saying the decision was a homicide of equitableice, a destruction of both democracy and judicial indepfinishence.
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu also protested agetst Ozdag’s arrest and shelp this amounts to an intervention of politics in the judiciary.
