14 October 2024
Mustafa Doğan İnal, a former lawyer of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, filed a moral compensation lawsuit of 100,000 Turkish Lira against BirGün reporter İsmail Arı and the newspaper.
The lawsuit concerns a report by Arı published on 24 September 2024, titled “The teacher he shouted at was dying!” The report brought forward an allegation that İnal’s cousin, a school principal, had reprimanded a female teacher.
In the petition submitted to the İstanbul Civil Court of First Instance, İnal argued that the report sought to humiliate him and constituted an attack on his reputation.