Merve Buyuksarac formerly Miss Turkey has been sentenced for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with a social media post.
Merve Buyuksarac, was handed a 14-month suspended sentence, meaning
she will be sent to jail if she does anything in the period deemed to
qualify as “reoffending”.
She was
detained for sharing a satirical poem on her Instagram account in 2014. Called
'The Master’s Poem’, it reportedly criticised Mr Erdogan – then the
Prime Minister - with part of the country’s national anthem in its verses.
“I had no intention to insult
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,” Ms Buyuksarac was quoted as saying at
the time.
Prosecutors deemed it to be insulting to Mr Erdogan, using a
previously little-used law that bars insulting him but leaders and international observers have raised concern over deteriorating freedoms in Turkey, where outspoken personalities and critical voices in the
media and politics have become targets by new laws.
Sources: Independent.co.uk
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