A criminal case may be opened against the vice-speaker of the Bundestag for insulting Erdogan

German Bundestag Vice-Speaker Wolfgang Kubiki may face criminal charges for insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Qazet.az reportsthat "Spiegel" published information about this.

Thus, Mustafa Kaplan, a lawyer living in Cologne, Germany, sued Kubiki on behalf of Erdogan for insult and defamation. The seven-page letter was submitted to the prosecutor's office of the city of Hildesheim through the local jurisdiction.

Earlier, the German ambassador in Ankara was summoned to the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs due to the insulting statements made by the vice-speaker of the Bundestag against the Turkish leader.