Turkish PM Erdogan to sue opposition leader over claim he had a gold-plated toilet seat
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Turkey's president is suing the country's opposition leader for slander for allegedly claiming before a national election that bathrooms in his 1,115-room palace had gold-plated seats.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's lawyer told the state-run Anadolu Agency on Tuesday that he would seek compensation from main opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu.
Kilicdaroglu denied in a television interview late Monday that he made the claim. He insisted he had referred to gold-plated toilet seats as a general criticism of lavish lifestyles by officials and that "Erdogan took it personally."
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Turkey holds its parliamentary election on Sunday.
Although Erdogan is supposed to be above politics and isn't running, he has been campaigning for a victory by the ruling AKP party, which he led for more than a decade as prime minister.