You might not hear what happens in your city. That is your own problem but if a 13 years old boy was arrested of insulting a President, it is a big news and maybe only deaf can't hear it. Turkey is not a clan state. It has own laws and social rules have coming 1000s years and due to our laws and social rules, you can't insult Chair of Presidency. Presidency represents state's own. You may not love Erdogan personaly, but it doesn't give you any right to insult President. But due to our laws, 13 years boy is not responsible in front of laws. I hope you got it now
Listen. The news was published in
Today's Zaman, which is one of the most popular dailies in Turkey. It is not my problem if you didn't read about it. Perhaps you are illiterate, and could not read.
A report about the incident was also published in
Hürriyet Daily News, which I believe is the most popular news paper in Istanbul.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/13-year-old-boy-testifies-for-insulting-erdogan-on-facebook.aspx?pageID=238&nID=79052&NewsCatID=341A 13-year-old student in western Turkey has testified on suspicion that he “insulted” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Facebook. On Feb. 27, a prosecutor in the Ayvalık district of the Balıkesir province summoned the 7th-grader, identified by the initials U.R.E., over a message he shared on Facebook in May 2014, according to a report by Doğan News Agency. The father met the police at his son’s school, from where then they all went to Ayvalık State Hospital and received a medical report. The child then testified to the prosecutor at the courthouse in Ayvalık over his Facebook message.
Citing Turkey’s defamation laws, Erdoğan has filed criminal complaints citing “insult” against more than 60 people in the country since he was elected to office in August 2014. Besides journalists, students have also increasingly become the target of prosecutors. Teenage schoolboy Mehmet Emin Altunses will go on trial on March 6 on charges of insulting the president in a speech in the conservative Anatolian city of Konya.
