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Kurdish politician jailed for insulting Erdoğan after top appeals court upholds sentence

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Former Kurdish lawmaker Mahmut Alınak was arrested on Thursday after Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals upheld his conviction on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Mezopotamya news agency (MA) reported. Alınak, 74, was taken into custody following the ruling and transferred to a prison in the northeastern province of Kars to serve what […] The post Kurdish politician jailed for insulting Erdoğan after top appeals court upholds sentence appeared first on Stockholm Center f...