Ekrem İmamoğlu's "lawsuit" response to President Erdoğan.

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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan filed a lawsuit for 1 million lira in moral damages against Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and CHP Chairman Özgür Özel.

In the lawsuit petition submitted to the Istanbul Anatolian Duty Civil Court by President Erdoğan's lawyer Ahmet Özel, it was stated that Esenyurt Mayor Özer was arrested for the crime of "being a member of the PKK/KCK armed terrorist organization."

It was noted in the petition that IMM Mayor İmamoğlu used false accusations containing slander against Erdoğan during a rally held on October 31 to protest Ahmet Özer's arrest, and it emphasized that İmamoğlu acted with the intention of humiliating the President in public.

IMM Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu made statements regarding the issue at the opening of the CHP Turkey Grand National Assembly (TBMM) Group Working and Evaluation Meeting.

"THEY MADE US EXPERIENCE A NEW JUDICIAL HARASSMENT"

Ekrem İmamoğlu said the following in his speech:

"For this very reason, they are trying to secure the continuation of their power by setting up different traps every day. They have also made us experience a new judicial harassment fresh and new. The rightful words, statements, and reminders we made in Esenyurt Square have angered the esteemed President.

He immediately instructed his lawyer to file a lawsuit for 1 million lira in damages against me and our esteemed Chairman. While they trample on the personal rights of our Esenyurt Mayor Ahmet Özer, who has reached the age of 65 and dedicated nearly 40 years to Turkey's scientific community, they see our real and evidence-based questions as an attack on their personal rights. Apparently, they feel humiliated in public.

We have no issue with the individuals or their personalities. Until their personalities become harmful to the country. While they are destroying the very reasons for the existence of the republic and humiliating our nation, our country, and our state in front of the world, we will never refrain from saying the necessary words and asking the necessary questions at that moment. Frankly, my speech was precisely on this axis."