HDP MP Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu has filed a criminal complaint against the police chief of the Turkish province of Uşak. The politician is exposed to defamation and defamation, said his lawyer Bişar Abdi Alınak on Friday. The background to this is the conflict over degrading naked searches on police stations in Uşak, which Gergerlioğlu had made public. Since then, he has been the focus of a state orchestrated defamation campaign.
Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu was a practicing doctor until he was elected Member of Parliament. As a human rights activist, he has made a name for himself in particular in the fight against the oppression and illegal treatment of minorities and disadvantaged groups. In September he carried the full exposure of thirty Muslim women from Usak to the Turkish parliament, who were arrested in the course of a police operation against alleged members of the movement of the preacher Fethullah Gülen, which was persecuted as FETÖ (“Fethullahist Terrorist Organization”) in Turkey and subjected to a naked search in custody had been.
Gergerlioğlu was reported by the governor of Uşak, the police chief and the entire staff of the security agency for his attempt to reprimand the human rights violating practice in police custody. In the press the politician was described as a “traitor”, “bloodshed” and “terrorist”. Gergerlioğlu also accuses the head of the police department of abuse of office and tried to influence the judiciary. A number of politically motivated proceedings are ongoing against the HDP MP. The Turkish parliament’s constitutional commission has also received dozens of applications to lift his immunity.
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