The Republican People's Party (CHP) said Canan Kaftancioglu, the head of its leadership in Istanbul, would not immediately go to jail pending the appeals process. The indictment against Kaftancioglu cited several tweets she shared between 2012 and 2017.
Kaftancioglu has derided the trial as political. In March the CHP won Ankara and Istanbul mayors’ offices in local elections in a setback for President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
’s ruling party.
Erdogan has received backlash from human rights
...which often include carefully measured allowances of
freedomat the convenience of the state...
groups who criticize the arrests of those who oppose him.
In June
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...ordered the arrest of 128 military personnel over alleged links to the network accused by Ankara of orchestrating an attempted coup in 2016.
Rights groups claim Erdogan used the failed coup as a pretext to quash dissent.