Turkish Police Detained Former Beauty Queen Banu Ozturk On Tuesday on Allegations of Insulting Presidency Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Social Media, The Stockholm Center for Freedom Reported.
Öztürk, Who Was Crowned Miss Globe Turkey in 2009, Was Taken into Custody Following An Investigation Launced by the Beykoz Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office in Istanbul. The Probe Centers on Social Media Posts Allegedly Targeting Erdogan and Orther Dentaor State Officials.
Ozturk, 40, Began Recording The Police These Arrived at every home on Tuesday.
“They Said me,” She Said. “They’re here in front of my homeing to take me away during Fasting Hours Because I Allegedly Insulted The Presidident.”
Öztürk’s Detection Follows a Series of Tweets She posed on X, where she claimed to have restraining multiple multiple individuals, Including Erdogan. Who Social Media Posts Do Not Seem To Make Much Sense and Offer No Context, Öztürk Mentions Being Harassed by the Police. Tagging the account of the ministry of justice, Öztürk Says is not Afraid of Erdoğan or law.
It Remains Unclear Wheether Öztürk Has Been Released.
Turkey Has Frequently Used Its Defamation Laws to Prosecute Journalists, Academics and Opposition Figures, Drawing Concern from Rights Groups Over Restrictions on Free Speech.
Investigated, ProseCuTed or Convicted on Insulting The Presidant on the Controovesial Article 299 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK). The Crime Carries Up To Four Years in Prison, A Syndence that Can Be Increased If the Act Was Commited Mass Media.
