Sedef Kabas denies using the proverb to insult President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
A Turkish court has detained well-known journalist Sedef Kabas for allegedly insulting the country's president.She is accused of targeting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with a proverb which she quoted on live television on an opposition-linked TV channel. She denies the charge."There is a very famous proverb that says that a crowned head becomes wiser. But we see it is not true," she said on the Tele1 channel.
"A so-called journalist is blatantly insulting our president on a television channel that has no goal other than spreading hatred," he wrote on Twitter.Erdogan: Turkey's pugnacious president"Her detention overnight at 2am because of a proverb is unacceptable," he said. "This stance is an attempt to intimidate journalists, the media and society".
Mr Erdogan spent 11 years as prime minister before becoming the country's first directly-elected president in August 2014 - a supposedly ceremonial role. His silencing of critics has caused alarm abroad, contributing to frosty relations with the EU, which has stalled Turkey's bid to join the bloc.In 2020 more than 31,000 investigations related to the charge were filed, Reuters news agency reports.
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