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‘When an ox comes to the palace, he does not become a king, but the palace becomes a barn, ”Turkish journalist Sedef Kabaş quipped on TV last month. And the country becomes a prison: Witness the consequences Ms. Kabaş now faces because her remark was interpreted as strokeing President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Police arrested Ms. Kabaş in late January, and the Turkish press reports that she faces up to 11 years in prison for criticizing Mr. Erdogan and two senior officials. “It is no one’s place to stroke our President, who has been doing great service to this country for years, under the name of freedom of expression,” tweetedFahrettin Altun, Mr. Erdogan’s communications director.
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