Istanbul 23rd Civil Court of First Instance sentenced journalist Levent Gültekin to 25 thousand Turkish Liras in compensation for his remarks against Selçuk Bayraktar, President Erdoğan’s son-in-law and chairman of the board of directors of Baykar Company: “They tied the defense industry of a whole country to the son-in-law and he tied his fate to his father-in-law.”
In his X post dated September 1, 2022, the journalist wrote, “They tied the defense industry of a whole country to a single person, and he tied his success to a single person, namely his father-in-law. Then he wails ‘what if my father-in-law leaves’. Is this a banana republic?” The journalist, who announced that he was penalized for these remarks, reacted harshly against Bayraktar on social media after he was partially convicted in a lawsuit demanding 100 thousand TL (November 23).