ANKARA
Turkey's Homeland Party leader Dogu Perincek has been ordered to pay compensation to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for insulting him in a newspaper article published in daily Aydinlik two years ago.
An Ankara court of appeal reversed an earlier ruling made by the Ankara 22nd Civil Court of First Instance which had ordered Perincek and the Turkish daily's management to pay 10,000 Turkish liras to Erdogan in 2013.
The course altered the judgment on Thursday, saying the amount was too much, and told Perincek to pay 5,000 Turkish liras to the President in compensation for the article published on July 8, 2012.
Aydinlik was launched in 1921 as the Ottoman Empire's first socialist newspaper, a weekly.
The daily has been repeatedly closed and relaunched and is aligned with Perincek's party.
