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Head of Republican CHP will pay 20 thousand TL to Erdogan

A Turkish court ruled that the head of Republican CHP, Deniz Baykal, will pay 20 thousand Turkish liras (about 13, 300 dollars) to the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan had filed two different court cases against Baykal for the expressions he used in referring to the Prime Minister during his party’s rallies in the cities of Hatay, Mersin and Nigde.

Source: ntvmsnbc (Turkey), February 9, 2010

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