Turkey’s New Taboo
By: Kadri Gursel for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse Posted on April 21.
No doubt that the decision of a Turkish court passing a 10-month suspended prison term on world famous Turkish pianist Fazil Say for “insulting religion and as such committing an act conducive to disrupting the public peace” with his tweets and retweets a year ago is a heavy blow to freedom of expression in Turkey.
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