Gezi's symbolic ‘lady in red' files lawsuit against PM Erdoğan
ISTANBUL - 25.06.2014 18:25:06
Ceyda Sungur, a young woman who became well known after a photograph of her being sprayed with tear gas at close range while wearing a red dress during last summer's Gezi protests, has filed a lawsuit against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, then-Interior Minister Muammer Güler and İstanbul Governor Hüseyin Avni Mutlu for the heavy-handed use of tear gas which, according to her lawyer, constitutes use of chemical weapons, and the authorities' violent crackdown on peaceful protesters.
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