Former Miss Turkey gets 14-month suspended sentence for insulting Erdogan

[WorldNews]

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A former Miss Turkey was handed a 14-month suspended prison sentence on Tuesday for insulting President Tayyip Erdogan through a poem she shared on Instagram, the latest of at least a dozen Turks to face such a sentence. An Istanbul court found model Merve Buyuksarac, 27, guilty of insulting a public official but suspended the sentence on condition she does not repeat the act for the next five years, local media said. Insulting the president is a crime punishable by up to four years in jail in Turkey.

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