Dutch Journalist Detained In Turkey For Erdogan Tweet

BBC ^ | April 24, 2016 | BBC Staff

[Bon mots]

A Dutch-Turkish journalist has been detained in Turkey after posting tweets critical of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, her newspaper said. Ebru Umar wrote a column for the Dutch Metro newspaper criticising President Erdogan's clampdown on dissent. Since 2014, prosecutors have launched cases against more than 1,800 journalists for insulting Mr Erdogan. Last week, Germany allowed the prosecution of a prominent TV satirist for insulting Mr Erdogan to proceed. Jan Boehmermann had read a crude poem on TV, aimed at testing German law. Germany and the Netherlands have old lese-majeste laws against insulting the head of a friendly state. Both governments have said they will change their laws so that lese-majeste is no longer an offence.

[Bon mots]

If you do not know who rules you, simply find out who you cannot insult.

[Chgogal]

Turkey needs to get out of NATO.

[bjcoop]

Turkey continues its assault on speech rights as it continues its march towards dictatorship

[miss marmelstein]

You mean they need to be kicked out of NATO.

[piytar]

Those crazy Dutch, thinking they can speak their minds!

/sarc

[Travis McGee]