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The Human Rights Foundation of Turkey's report on free expression violations during 2015-2019 notes a sharp increase in the number of charges of "insulting the president" after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's election in 2014.
TURKISH President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recent pronouncements on human rights and freedom of expression were exposed as a mockery today after 66 journalists went on trial in just one day.
They faced a range of charges including spreading terrorist propaganda just days after the authoritarian ruler proclaimed that “nobody can be robbed of their freedoms because of a criticism or opinion,” as he laid out a new human rights action plan.
Some 46 journalists working in pro-Kurdish media including the now-closed Ozgur Gundem newspaper Dicle Haber Ajansi, Azadiya Welat, Demokratik Modernitecand Firat Dagitim were hauled before court for the twentieth time.