Journalist Sedef Kampa was arrested and remanded in custody for “insulting the president” on Saturday, after saying a proverb on television, which was interpreted as referring to President Tayyip Erdogan (!), As announced by the journalist’s lawyer.
“There is a well-known proverb that says that the crowned head becomes wiser. But we see that this is not true. “The ox entering the palace does not become a king, but the palace becomes a stable”, said live the well-known journalist in Turkey on the television network Tele1.
Sedef Kampas also posted the Circassian proverb on her Twitter account, where she has 900,000 followers.
The journalist was arrested in the early hours of the morning at her home in Istanbul, interrogated and remanded in custody, said Ugur Poiraz’s lawyer.
“The arrest of Sedef Kampa for ‘insulting the president’ is a serious violation of the right to freedom of expression,” the Turkish Journalists’ Union (TGS) said in a statement. the ear sweats »…
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