Erdogan threatened legal action against someone who called him a dictator.
Resolved true The record shows it happened or was so.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
What would count as true or false
Judged as of 2020-12-21. True: credible news reports show that around December 2020 Erdogan, or his lawyers or office acting for him, threatened or started legal action against a person for calling him a dictator. Mostly true: such a threat or legal action happened, with a minor difference in timing or wording (e.g. an insult that included 'dictator' among other words). Mixed: legal action was taken over insulting language, but 'dictator' was not clearly the trigger. Mostly false: there was legal action over insults, but none tied to the word 'dictator' at or near that time. False: there are no such threats and reports contradict the claim.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (4)
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E1 President Erdoğan files lawsuit against CHP lawmaker - Türkiye News Hürriyet Daily News · 21 December 2020
“President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Dec. 21 filed a lawsuit for mental anguish against the Republican People’s Party (CHP) Group Deputy Chair Özgür Özel amounting to 250,000 Turkish Liras.”
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E2 President Erdoğan files lawsuit against CHP lawmaker - Türkiye News Hürriyet Daily News · 21 December 2020
“The petition, which included some parts of Özel’s speech, cited that the lawmaker and his party were identifying Erdoğan as a “dictator with the intent of insulting the president.””
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E3 Erdoğan sues opposition politician over remarks calling him a ‘dictator’ - Turkish Minute Turkish Minute · 21 December 2020
“Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has filed a lawsuit against a main opposition party politician seeking TL 250,000 ($32,000) in damages for remarks accusing Erdoğan of being a dictator, the Anadolu news agency reported on Monday.”
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E4 President Erdoğan sues main opposition CHP MP Özgür Özel for calling him a 'dictator' Duvar English · 22 December 2020
“Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sued main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Group Deputy Chairman Özgür Özel for calling him a dictator on Dec. 17, demanding 250,000 Turkish Liras as compensation.”
Reasoning
Hürriyet Daily News and Turkish Minute both report that on Dec. 21, 2020, Erdoğan filed a lawsuit seeking TL 250,000 against CHP lawmaker Özgür Özel (E1, E3). The petition cited Özel and his party calling Erdoğan a "dictator" with intent to insult him (E2). Duvar English also reports that the suit was over Özel calling him a dictator (E4). Several independent reports show legal action over the word "dictator" in December 2020, which meets the "true" criterion.
Cite this claim
Nassim Taleb, “Erdogan threatened legal action against someone who called him a dictator.” (said 21 December 2020). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_0e8bee286091, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_0e8bee286091
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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