İYİ Party MP under probe for ‘misleading’ information
İYİ Party’s Turhan Çömez speaks during a session in parliament.
Prosecutors have launched an investigation into senior İYİ (Good) Party lawmaker Turhan Çömez over his remarks claiming that a riot had broken out at a prison in the capital.
Ankara Chief Prosecutor’s Office said Çömez is being investigated for allegedly “publicly disseminating misleading information.”
Çömez was elected to parliament from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2002. He previously served as a private secretary and adviser to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and was his physician.
