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HRW urges Turkey to halt prosecutions for ‘insulting the president’
“‘Insulting the president’ should not be a crime, and students holding up a satirical banner obviously should never have faced prosecution,” said Benjamin Ward,...
4 ODTÜ students, arrested on Erdoğan insult charges, released
Four students from the Ankara-based Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) who were arrested in July on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan were...
CHP’s Kılıçdaroğlu tweets caricature that caused arrest of 4 ODTÜ students
Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on Tuesday posted a caricature on Twitter called “Tayyipler Âlemi” (World of Tayyips), which had previously caused...
Jail sentence sought for Gırgır cartoonist for insulting sacred values
A prosecutor has drafted an indictment seeking up to 18 months for cartoonist Seyfi Şahin, who used to work for the closed-down popular humor...