A statement made by the Ankara Chief Prosecutor’s Office on Jan. 4 recalled a statement made by Sağlar on a television channel on Dec. 30 in which he said, “When I stand before a judge wearing a türban, I doubt that she will defend justice. Some of them act militantly and ideologically, and a struggle must be waged against this.”
“This person is not living in this age. He lives in the past. This is, unfortunately, today’s reflection of the CHP’s fascist understanding as it had in the past,” Erdoğan told reporters after Friday prayers in Istanbul on Jan. 1.
The CHP’s spokesmen clarified that Sağlar’s views do not represent the main opposition’s official stance on the matter.
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the CHP’s chairman, also rejected Sağlar’s views, saying the CHP is not interested in how women dress in their daily lives, at work and even in courts.