On the 11 October 2016, an investigation against Gergerlioğlu was initiated for having shared an image on twitter in support of a Kurdish Turkish peace process, depicting mothers behind a symbolic coffin draped with a Turkish flag and an other one with the flag of the Kurdistan Workers' Party.[1] The image was taken during a manifestation of the Peace Mothers on the World Peace Day.[2] On the 13 October, he was summoned by his superior at the state hospital in İzmit and suspended from his duties.[1] Nacho Sánchez Amor, the current rapporteur for Turkey of the European Parliament, condemned the confirmation the sentence in February 2021.[20] Gergerlioğlu is still able to appeal the verdict at the Constitutional Court.[21]