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Turkey’s media watchdog absolves Turkish lawyer for ‘pregnant women’ remarks

Turkey’s media watchdog absolves Turkish lawyer for ‘pregnant women’ remarks

ISTANBUL

Lawyer and Sufi thinker Ömer Tuğrul İnançer’s contentious comments that pregnant women’s presence in public is “disgraceful” fall within the remit of freedom of expression, meaning they warrant no penalty, Turkey’s Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) ruled today.

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