Islam Offended Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Turkey

TWITTER INSULTS OF ERDOGAN LEAD TO ARRESTS OF THREE PEOPLE……

You can’t mock a leader in Islam.

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In fact, many statist minded European leaders are envious of that fact.

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Turkey arrests 3 in raids over Erdogan Twitter insults

A picture representing a mugshot of the twitter bird is seen on a smart phone with a Turkish flag on March 26, 2014 in Istanbul (AFP Photo/Ozan Kose)

Istanbul (AFP) – Turkish police on Friday detained three people accused of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other top officials on Twitter, after raiding their homes.

The raids were the latest in a string of actions against critics of Erdogan on Twitter, as activists express growing alarm over the limits on freedom of expression in Turkey.

The three people, two of them women and identified as Veli H.K., Serpil I. and Serap K., were detained at their homes and are expected to face court hearings in the coming days, the official Anatolia news agency reported.

According to media reports, two were arrested in Istanbul and one in the resort of Fethiye in the Mugla province on the Mediterranean.

In a separate incident, police in the central Anatolian ciity of Kayseri also arrested a Turkish student who had been convicted of calling Erdogan a “dictator” during the protests in the summer of 2013 against his rule, the Hurriyet daily reported.

Aykulatap Avsar, who until now had been at large, was sent to a prison in Kayseri to begin serving a one year and two months jail sentence.

Erdogan had in a speech earlier lashed out at the protesters involved in the 2013 demonstrations, which began as rallies over the planned development of Gezi Park in central Istanbul.

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