Turkish girl arrested for criticizing gov’t in road interview: ‘They cannot scare me’

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The deputy of the principle Turkish opposition Republican Folks’s Occasion (CHP) Tuncay Özkan on August 14 visited Dilruba Y. in a jail in İzmir.

She was arrested for “insulting the President” after criticizing the federal government throughout a road interview carried out by a YouTube channel concerning the current entry restriction imposed on Instagram.

Özkan stated she was “the final sufferer of freedom of expression in Turkey.”

Accordingly, he advised Özkan “They made me stronger by imprisoning me. After I get out of right here, I’ll proceed to defend my concepts as a result of my information is Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. I did not insult anybody. I didn’t converse with the intention of insulting, however I expressed my opinion. I’ll proceed to precise my opinion. They cannot scare me, they cannot scare me.”

“Right this moment is the twenty third anniversary of the founding of the AK Occasion. They’ve been on a really incorrect path they usually have come this far. By limiting bans and freedoms, they’ve nowhere to go any more,” Özkan stated.

Ebubekir Şahin, head of Turkey’s state media watchdog, the Radio and Tv Supreme Council (RTÜK), lately stated that road interviews or broadcasts labeled as “citizen opinion” on new media platforms could be scrutinized.

After the arrest of Dilruba Y., Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç claimed “When you converse in a method that incites individuals to hatred and enmity, the judiciary will step in.”