Turkey files investigation into Dutch lawmaker

By Cemil Murat Budak

ANKARA (AA) - Turkish prosecutors filed an investigation Tuesday into far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders over a social media post seeking to vilify Turkey's president.

The chief public prosecutor's office in the capital Ankara said in a statement that the probe involving Wilders, who heads the Party for Freedom, was opened due to a Twitter post "including a photograph and written insult about President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Feb. 15."

* Writing by Dilan Pamuk in Ankara