...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's most prominent cartoonists a day after he was jugged
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
to serve a 14-month sentence for insulting President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey..., media reported.
Nuri Kurtcebe, 69, was detained and sent to prison Monday after a police check found him on a bus travelling in the northwestern
But his lawyer Erdem Akyuz told
"My client Nuri Kurtcebe will resume hs work, his drawings and his cartoons after having been deprived of his pencils and ink for two days," Akyuz was quoted as saying by the private Dogan news agency.
Kurtcebe had been handed the jail term last year for several caricatures he drew in 2015, but launched an appeal and remained free pending the ruling.
His lawyer said earlier Tuesday that the authorities were enforcing the sentence after an appeal was turned down by an upper court.
Amnesty Urges Releases of Its Turkey Head after Year in Jail
[AnNahar]
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
chairman who has spent a year in jail on "baseless" charges of links to the group blamed for a failed July 2016 coup.
Taner Kilic has been held since June 2017 in the western city of Izmir, accused of links to US-based preacher Fethullah Gülen
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...who Turkey says ordered the coup. Gulen denies the accusation.
Kilic is one of dozens of journalists and rights activists caught up in the crackdown launched under a state of emergency after the coup, which critics say has netted not just the suspected plotters but also opponents of President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
"Today we mourn the year of Taner Kilic's life that Turkey's government has unjustly taken from him," Salil Shetty,
"But this is also a moment to redouble our efforts to secure his release and that of many other civil society activists whose work has cost them their freedom," Shetty added.
Kilic was placed in durance vile
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
on June 6, 2017, on what Amnesty describes as the "baseless charge of belonging to a terrorist organization".
Authorities accused Kilic of having an encrypted messaging application on his phone in August 2014 called ByLock, which Ankara claims was especially created for Gulen supporters.
In a cruel twist, an Istanbul court earlier this year ordered his conditional release but then overturned its decision within 24 hours, and he has been in jail ever since.
His next hearing is set for June 21. If he is found guilty, he could face up to 15 years in jail.
Kilic is on trial with 10 other rights activists including Amnesty's Turkey director Idil Eser, who were detained on terror charges after holding a workshop on an island off Istanbul. The other 10 were all released last year though their trial continues. They will also appear in court on June 21.