A lawsuit was filed against journalist Levent Gültekin over his statement on his TV show; he was charged with “insulting the President of the Republic” as per the Article 299 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK).
Gültekin announced the lawsuit on his Twitter account, saying: “I have yet another lawsuit. They have apparently considered my remark ‘The President openly lies to the public’ to be an insult and filed a criminal case against me. If I receive a political ban, I will blame it on the opposition because they are the ones who control the judiciary” (December 17).