Jun 03 2021 09:22 Gmt+3
Last Updated On: Jun 03 2021 09:37 Gmt+3
A Turkish prosecutor is seeking up to two years and four months in prison for actress Ezgi Mola for insulting a former soldier who stands accused of raping an 18-year-old Kurdish woman, daily BirGün reported on Wednesday.
“Drown in the conscience that made you release this wicked rapist,” Mola had tweeted about Musa Orhan, who was released pending trial after six days behind bars by a court in southeastern Siirt province on August 26, 2020.
Orhan is facing charges for sexually assaulting İpek Er, who accused the former captain in her suicide note of kidnapping and raping her for 20 days. Er lost her life in the hospital in August last year after she shot herself.
WOMEN’S organisations vowed to stand by those who expose sexual abuse and rape on Saturday after a new “me too” scandal started to engulf Turkey’s so-called “intelligentsia.”
More than 50 groups signed a statement in recognition of a “women’s rebellion” which was triggered after a sexual harassment complaint was made against well-known author Hasan Ali Toptas.
Twitter user Leyla Salinger faced what has been described as “a lynching” after making allegations against Mr Toptas, which he admitted but dismissed as the act of a “patriarchal perpetrator.”
She was threatened and abused for speaking out and exposing her ordeal at the hands of Mr Toptas while she was a university student.