CHP leader to not pay Erdoğan compensation regarding claims on offshore accounts: Supreme Court

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Turkey’s Supreme Court has reversed a ruling that main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu should pay hundreds of thousands of liras in compensation against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan over claims the latter had accounts holding millions of dollars on the tax haven of Isle of Man.

Kılıçdaroğlu had claimed Erdoğan had millions of dollars worth of money in offshore bank accounts on the Isle of Man in 2017.

“We have won the Isle of Man cases, too,” Kılıçdaroğlu’s lawyer, Celal Çelik, said in a tweet.

“This time, the Supreme Court taught Erdoğan a lesson. Party chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu was right in the Isle of Man cases, too, and we won. The Supreme Court reversed the rulings handed down by so-called judges [in three cases] who have committed crimes. We will continue to win and teach lessons,” Çelik said on April 13.

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