Turkey's opposition leader Kemal Kilicardaroglu and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have been pushing for the sale of one of his homes, local media reported.
"The Turkish opposition leader was forced to sell a house in order to pay the damages he was fined by the judiciary as a result of the cases brought against him by Erdogan," the Takaful Freedom Center quoted the T24 news website as saying.
Erdogan has filed 29 lawsuits against Kilichdaroglu, and in 12 judicial cases in which the opposition leader was sentenced to pay 870,000 lira ($ 155,000) in compensation.
In one case settled last June, a court in Istanbul, Kilichdaroglu, was ordered to pay compensation of 142,000 Turkish lira.
The Republican People's Party (CHP) sold its summer home in Bahraniya, a coastal town in the Aegean Sea, for 500,000 Turkish liras in order to pay compensation.
According to Turkish law, insulting the president is punishable by law. Erdogan's lawyers have therefore filed 1,800 cases before the courts for various insults directed at people by the president, including schoolchildren and celebrities.
Turkey is the least criticized "insult", leading to the imprisonment of between one and four years for "insulting the president."
