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The Grand Turk
CHP lawmaker faces probe after Erdogan criticizes his remarks over armed drone attacks
2017-09-09
[Hurriyet Daily News] An Ankara prosecutor filed an indictment against main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Istanbul politician Sezgin Tanrikulu on Sept. 8, after he voiced concerns over allegations that an armed drone in the southeastern province of Hakkari shot four citizens, leaving one dead.

The probe came after President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
lashed out at Tanrikulu earlier in the day, saying that "the drones only shot terrorists."

"Where are those civilians?" Erdogan said on Sept. 8 before embarking on a trip to Kazakhstan, adding that armed drones "shot only terrorists."

"These individuals have come to a point where they are defending dead terrorists," he added, referring to the politician.

"There is strong evidence that he has defamed the legitimacy of the Ottoman Turkish state by posting a message on Twitter alleging that an unmanned aerial vehicle [UAV] of the Ottoman Turkish state has shot civilians and killed them," the Ankara Public Prosecutor’s office stated on Sept. 8.

Tanrikulu had said on his Twitter account on Sept. 7 that four civilians were bombed by an armed drone on Aug. 31 in Hakkari, killing one civilian.
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