Turkey: prominent journalist detained for insulting president Erdoğan

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Sedef Kabaş faces imprisonment for saying a proverb, with colleagues condemning arrest as attempt to intimidate media

Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/APPhotograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/APA prominent Turkish TV journalist has been detained and could face imprisonment after being charged with insulting the country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

 

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You can't even do a comedy act in Turkey mentioning his name let alone be a serious journalist criticizing him ... the man cannot take criticism he will put people in jail

Democracy does not give freedom to insult a president who is the choice of a certain percentage of the people. Everyone gets what they deserve.

Did he call Erdogan a ‘Sloppy Old Dildo’ or something?

Another violent authoritarian dictator Erdogan who is a danger to freedom. Turkey.

Scott Morrison wants to do this.

Thank you Turkey!

Totalitarianism. Mustn't disparage the 'ruler'.

Erdogan Nerd ogan

Donald Trump would do this

The jails would be over flowing if we had the same law in the UK! 🤡

Seriously, Turkey has become a dictatorship. The West should be treating it as such. Theocracy is no democracy.

Insulting is a crime , Not the whole world see insults as something positive

So Democratic! Anyways we should not jump to cont and believe corporate media reports blindly.

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