Family and Social Services Minister Mahinur Özdemir Göktaş has filed criminal complaints against three public figures. She announced the step on her official X account, naming Ümit Özlale, Cemal Enginyurt and Ali Mahir Başarır. According to the minister, the three had spread lies and slander aimed at her person and her family. The comments that angered her revolve around the so-called fund issue, which has been running through Turkish political debate in recent days. Göktaş said she would not allow the accusations to go unanswered and chose the courts as her answer. A sitting minister pressing charges over public statements is an unusually direct move in this kind of dispute. It now puts the three men in front of prosecutors and the legal process that follows. How fast the complaints are handled remains to be seen.