İYİ Party Secretary General Uğur Poyraz applied to the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on September 7, 2022 and filed a criminal complaint against journalist and former Republican People’s Party (CHP) MP Barış Yarkadaş on the grounds of his remarks about the party and party executives on a TV program. The İYİ Party’s lawyer requested that Yarkadaş be penalized on charge of “libel” (as per the Article 267 of the Turkish Penal Code / TCK).
On the TV100 broadcast “Taksim Square with Gürkan Hacır” on September 5, 2022, Yarkadaş alleged that the İYİ Party executives and their close circle “got tenders” from metropolitan municipalities (September 7).