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Thursday, February 25, 2016

Erdogan's Turkey



Former Turkish football star Hakan Sukur facing 4yrs in jail for insulting President Erdogan
Published time: 24 Feb, 2016 16:04
https://www.rt.com/news/333504-erdogan-turkey-sukur-crackdown/
Former Turkish international football player Hakan Sukur is facing up to four years in jail, if he is found guilty of insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Twitter. An indictment has been approved with a first hearing expected within weeks.

The Bakirkoy 28th Criminal Court of First Instance accepted the indictment against Sukur on Wednesday. The case against the former footballer says he insulted Erdogan and his son in posts he wrote on Twitter.

Sukur says that he did not intend to target the president. However, prosecutors say that the tweets were “clearly related” to the Turkish president, the Dogan news agency reports, as cited by AFP...


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