ISTANBUL: A far-right political opponent of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday slammed ongoing graft probes into Turkiye’s opposition as unfair, a day after being released from jail.
Umit Ozdag, who heads the small anti-immigrant Victory party, was placed in pre-trial detention on charges of inciting public hatred on January 20.
A court on Tuesday sentenced him to two years and four months behind bars, but ordered his release on grounds of time already served.
He is also being tried on a separate charge of insulting the president — a charge often used to silence Erdogan’s critics — with the next hearing on September 10.
Speaking to Anka news agency on Wednesday, Ozdag said the barrage of legal probes targeting municipalities run by the main opposition CHP was one-sided and “harmful.”
