Turkish Court Hands Down Suspended Sentence to Former CHP Chair

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A Turkish court sentenced former leader of Turkey's largest opposition party, the CHP, Kemal Kilicdaroglu to almost a year in prison today for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. But he will not have to go to prison yet, as the verdict is not final, his lawyer told the German news agency dpa.

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For almost a year, the former head of the Turkish opposition party CHP has to go to prison. He is accused of insulting President Erdoğan in 2014.

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For years, Kilicdaroglu was at the head of the Turkish opposition, but he was never able to defeat President Erdogan. Now he is sentenced to an old case. Former Turkish opposition leader Kemal Kilicdargolu has been sentenced to nearly a year in prison for insulting today's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.The court in Mersin sentenced Kilicdargolu to eleven months and 20 years in prison for insulting an official, as his lawyer of the German Press …

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A verdict has been reached in the trial in Mersin of Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, former chairman of the CHP (Republican People's Party), who was accused of insulting President Erdoğan.