President Erdoğan top complainant in Turkey insult cases where journalists dominate defendants: report

Turkish journalists accounted for nearly two-thirds of defendants in cases involving charges of insulting the president or public officials over a 17-month period, with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan the leading complainant, according to a new report by the Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA). Prosecutors used social media posts and news reports as evidence in […] The post President Erdoğan top complainant in Turkey insult cases where journalists dominate defendants: report appeared firs...

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