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WRITER TO BE TRIED ON CHARGES OF INSULTING TURKISH PRIME MINISTER
21:57 * 04.10.13
An Istanbul prosecutor has demanded the imprisonment of writer Emrah
Serbes for from 10 months to 12 years, on accusations of insulting
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Istanbul Governor Huseyin Avni
Mutlu and Interior Minister Muammer Guler, The Hurriyet Daily News
reports.
Serbes had made a pun in a TV show by changing the prime minister's
middle name "Tayyip" to "Tazyik," a word meaning pressurized water
in reference to the police's excessive use of water cannons and tear
gas against protesters during the most recent May Day.
The Istanbul 18th Criminal Court of Peace approved the indictment
and commenced proceedings in the case, the report said.
The investigation was launched after an anonymous e-mail was received
by the Prime Ministry's Communication Center (BİMER). The email
alleged that Serbes' words should be considered a crime under the
law forbidding "insulting civil servants."
Serbes said he had attended the May Day protests as a responsible
citizen and as a writer.
A total of 14 tons of water mixed with tear gas was used during
the police crackdown on demonstrators on May Day in Istanbul, daily
Radikal published May 26, citing a lawyer who discovered the figure
by using the freedom of information act.
Hundreds were injured in clashes between police and protesters during
May Day celebrations, inflamed by a ban on entering the symbolic
Taksim Square.
Armenian News - Tert.am
From: A. Papazian
21:57 * 04.10.13
An Istanbul prosecutor has demanded the imprisonment of writer Emrah
Serbes for from 10 months to 12 years, on accusations of insulting
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Istanbul Governor Huseyin Avni
Mutlu and Interior Minister Muammer Guler, The Hurriyet Daily News
reports.
Serbes had made a pun in a TV show by changing the prime minister's
middle name "Tayyip" to "Tazyik," a word meaning pressurized water
in reference to the police's excessive use of water cannons and tear
gas against protesters during the most recent May Day.
The Istanbul 18th Criminal Court of Peace approved the indictment
and commenced proceedings in the case, the report said.
The investigation was launched after an anonymous e-mail was received
by the Prime Ministry's Communication Center (BİMER). The email
alleged that Serbes' words should be considered a crime under the
law forbidding "insulting civil servants."
Serbes said he had attended the May Day protests as a responsible
citizen and as a writer.
A total of 14 tons of water mixed with tear gas was used during
the police crackdown on demonstrators on May Day in Istanbul, daily
Radikal published May 26, citing a lawyer who discovered the figure
by using the freedom of information act.
Hundreds were injured in clashes between police and protesters during
May Day celebrations, inflamed by a ban on entering the symbolic
Taksim Square.
Armenian News - Tert.am
From: A. Papazian