Former Miss Turkey testifies over insulting Erdoğan on Instagram

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Merve Büyüksaraç, a model who became Miss Turkey in 2006, has testified to an İstanbul prosecutor for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on her Instagram account, the Cihan news agency reported on Wednesday.
Büyüksaraç reportedly shared on Instagram a poem adapted from the lyrics of the Turkish national anthem that featured insults targeting Erdoğan. Speaking to a prosecutor at the İstanbul Çağlayan Courthouse, Büyüksaraç reportedly said: “I don’t precisely recall the content I have shared on my Instagram account. However, I might have taken excerpts from Twitter, other social media websites or the cartoon magazine Uykusuz. I did not personally adapt the poem titled ‘The Poem of the Chief’. I shared it because it was funny to me. I did not intend to insult Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.”

The model added that she deleted the post after a friend of hers warned her against possible prosecution because he had been faced with charges for a sharing something similar. The prosecutor demanded the model be put under supervision, but a court rejected the petition. Büyüksaraç was later released pending trial.

source: todayszaman

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