Turkish president sues German lawmaker about slur
BERLIN — Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is suing a senior German lawmaker who referred to as him a “sewer rat,” his lawyer said Friday.
Mustafa Kaplan confirmed a report by German weekly Der Spiegel that he experienced submitted a prison complaint for slander and libel versus lawmaker Wolfgang Kubicki on behalf of his consumer.
Kubicki, a member of the governing Free of charge Democratic Bash, explained to German information company dpa that he was unconcerned about the lawsuit.
The Turkish govt this week sharply criticized Kubicki’s feedback, made at a the latest election campaign event.
Kubicki used the phrase “sewer rat” in reference to Erdogan while speaking about a migration offer involving Turkey and the European Union.
The lawmaker later explained he viewed as sewer rats to be “small, adorable, but also intelligent and devious creatures” that sometimes seem as protagonists in kid’s tales.
Erdogan earlier won a circumstance in Germany forbidding a comic from repeating elements of a crude poem he wrote about the Turkish president.
BERLIN — Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is suing a senior German lawmaker who referred to as him a “sewer rat,” his lawyer said Friday.
Mustafa Kaplan confirmed a report by German weekly Der Spiegel that he experienced submitted a prison complaint for slander and libel versus lawmaker Wolfgang Kubicki on behalf of his consumer.
Kubicki, a member of the governing Free of charge Democratic Bash, explained to German information company dpa that he was unconcerned about the lawsuit.
The Turkish govt this week sharply criticized Kubicki’s feedback, made at a the latest election campaign event.
Kubicki used the phrase “sewer rat” in reference to Erdogan while speaking about a migration offer involving Turkey and the European Union.
The lawmaker later explained he viewed as sewer rats to be “small, adorable, but also intelligent and devious creatures” that sometimes seem as protagonists in kid’s tales.
Erdogan earlier won a circumstance in Germany forbidding a comic from repeating elements of a crude poem he wrote about the Turkish president.