ANKARA - The Turkish president said on Wednesday he had no hesitations about being tried.
Turkey's President Abdullah Gul said that he did not have any hesitations about being tried in case there were some allegations about him.
A criminal court in Ankara overruled on Monday a decision that prevented President Gul from being investigated for alleged "forgery in special documents."
"I was the deputy chairman of the Welfare Party ten years ago and responsible for foreign policy, and I was not authorized or responsible about monetary and financial issues," Gul told a joint press conference with his Slovenian President Danilo Turk in Ankara.
Gul said that all deputy chairmen, the accountant and the secretary general of the party were acquitted in a case. The case was related with forgery in special documents.
The president said that he was sued those days and the court put precautionary measure on his assets.
"This case was heard, and it was overturned since we had no responsibility," he said.
Gul was among a number of people accused in what is publicly known in Turkey as the "missing trillion case."
The case primarily concerned Necmettin Erbakan, former prime minister and leader of the defunct Welfare Party (RP), who was accused of fraud of falsifying party records to hide RP's cash that were ordered to be seized after his party was disbanded in January 1998.
The Ankara court cited "a loophole" as the base for its ruling in the Turkish constitution regarding crimes one could have committed before being elected as the president.
In a statement released late on Monday, Gul's office rejected the Ankara court's ruling, stressing that the Constitution dictates that the president can be put on trial only for treason.