Istanbul prosecutor bans latest edition from being distributed over charges of ‘insulting the Turkish president’,Tayyip Erdogan Turkish police raided a magazine on Monday over a mocked-up “selfie” of a smiling president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, or with the coffin of a soldier – an allusion to comments that families of soldiers killed by Kurdish rebels could be joyful about their martyrdom. An Istanbul prosecutor’s office banned the latest edition of Nokta magazine from being distributed and ordered raids on its offices over charges of “insulting the Turkish president” and making terrorist propaganda” after the cover was published online,the magazine said in a statement.
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Source: theguardian.com