peribiden Istanbul: Turkey has held a famous television journalist for the comments he made in the air about President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his lawyer said Saturday.
The police held Sedef Kabas at his home at 2:00 on Saturday, just hours after he arrived, and then posted him on Twitter to 900,000 followers.
He was officially arrested after appearing in court.
The crime insulted the President brought a sentence of one to four years in Turkey.
“A journalist called openly insulting our president on a television channel that has no purpose in addition to spreading hatred,” said Erdogan’s spokesman Fahrettin Altun on Twitter.
“I condemn this vanity, this is immorality in the strongest thing that is possible. This is not only immoral, it is also not responsible,” Altun said.
But Turkish Journalists said Kabas’ serious attack on freedom of expression “.
Rights groups routinely accused Turkey to damage the freedom of the media by arresting journalists and turning off critical media outlets, especially because Erdogan survived the coup failed in July 2016.
Reporter without the 153rd Turkish ranking ranks in the press freedom index 2021.
