Previous Turkey football star Hakan Sukur went on trial on Thursday at an Istanbul court in absentia on charges of offending President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on online networking.
Sukur is one of a few thousand individuals including columnists, lawmakers and the intermittent big name, to confront legitimate procedures on gigantically questionable allegations of offending the Turkish pioneer.

The legal counselor of Sukur, one of the stars of Turkey's third place execution in the 2002 World Cup, told the court that his customer had moved to the United States.

Ali Onur Guncel said his customer could give affirmation from the United States if proof gave by the safeguard was observed to be deficient.

As indicated by Turkish media, Sukur had blamed Erdogan for burglary in a tweet in February 2015, without naming him straightforwardly.

Prosecutors have approached in the arraignment for Sukur to serve up to four years in prison.

Sukur, a striker whose football vocation extended from 1987-2007, was by a long shot the most productive goalscorer in the historical backdrop of the Turkish national side, finding the net 51 times in 112 appearances.

His objective after only 11 seconds of play against South Korea in 2002 remains the speediest objective in World Cup history.

After football, Sukur went into legislative issues and was in 2011 chose a MP with Erdogan's decision Justice and Development Party (AKP). In any case, he surrendered in 2013 after an unfathomable defilement test that focused on Erdogan and his internal circle, agreeing with the development of his curve enemy, the US-based evangelist Fethullah Gulen.

Sukur had voiced complaints to the administration move to close down schools keep running by Gulen's development Hizmet. His legal advisor's remarks affirm that Sukur has left his nation of origin for the United States have finished vulnerability over his whereabouts. Sukur had beforehand demanded his nearness there was simply impermanent to learn English and open a football foundation.

Adversaries say Erdogan has turned into an undeniably polarizing figure in Turkey since getting to be president in 2014, demonstrating zero resilience for any feedback on online networking or in the city. Be that as it may, the president's supporters demand reasonable feedback is permitted and a line is just drawn when it bubbles over into abuse.