Sar?gül may face law suit over row with ?i?li mayor

Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals has annulled the dismissal of allegations against the former mayor of Istanbul's ?i?li district, Mustafa Sar?gül, and his son Emir Sar?gül in an investigation launched after the wife of current ?i?li Mayor Hayri ?nönü accused the Sar?güls of pressuring ?nönü to resign using death threats. 

The high court annulled the dismissal of allegations on Dec. 3, 2015 in the investigation launched after ?nönü's wife, Nazl? ?nönü, claimed in an interview with daily Hürriyet on Dec. 18, 2014 that she and her husband received death threats from Sar?gül and his son.

The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office launched the investigation late December 2014 upon the claim and summoned Hayri and Nazl? ?nönü to testify, who filed a criminal complaint in their testimony accusing Sar?gül and his son of "threatening." 

The prosecutor's office on Feb. 4, 2015, however, dropped the investigation, saying that there was no ground to file a lawsuit against Sar?gül and his son.

The ?i?li District Municipality said in a written statement that ?nönü appealed the decision of the prosecutor's office to the Justice Ministry and that the Supreme Court of Appeals on Dec. 3, 2015 annulled the dismissal of charges ordered by the prosecutor's office.

"I previously stated that the decision for dismissal of charges had no ground. The Court of Appeals acknowledged that I was right before the law," the statement quoted ?i?li Mayor Hayri ?nönü as saying.

The move came a year after Nazl? ?nönü, whose husband was elected on the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) ticket in 2014's Mar. 30 local elections, said she and her husband had been threatened by the Sar?güls in order to pressure her husband to resign from...