[Hurriyet Daily News] A Turkish prosecutor has launched a probe into daily Hurriyet for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
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Idris Kurt, deputy chief prosecutor in Istanbul's Bakirköy district, initiated the process himself Sept. 7 over claims that daily Hurriyet "twisted Erdogan's words to conduct a perception operation."
Speaking on the pro-government A Haber TV station about the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) deadly attack on a military convoy in the southeastern province of Hakkari on Sept. 6, Erdogan was asked by the presenter: "You said in the inauguration of a metro line that you 'wanted 400 deputies' [for the AKP]. It is said that these words played a role in the coming of this conflict period."
In response, Erdogan said: "If a political party could have gotten 400 deputies or [a parliamentary majority] to write a new constitution, the situation would be different today."
As headline, Hurriyet tweeted, "Daglica comment from Erdogan: 'This would not have happened if 400 deputies had been given," while reporting the full text of the interview, leading to accusations among pro-government social media users.
Hurriyet files complaint against AKP MP
Calls were followed by a 200-person mob in an attack on daily Hurriyet's main office in Istanbul's Bagcilar district late on Sept. 6.
On Sept. 7, daily Hurriyet filed a criminal complaint against protesters and their leader Abdurrahim Boynukalin, a parliamentary deputy and the head of the Justice and Development Party's (AKP) youth organization.
In his speech in front of the newspaper's building, which was pelted with stones by club-wielding protesters, Boynukalin had vowed that Dogan Media, which owns daily Hurriyet, will "get the hell out of
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
" when Erdogan will have additional executive powers "whatever the electoral outcome on Nov. 1 will be."