Turkish man sues wife for insulting President Erdogan

“I kept on warning her, saying why are you doing this? Our president is a good person and did good things for Turkey,” the husband is quoted as saying.

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“Even if it is my father who swears against or insults the president, I would not forgive and I would complain,” he said.

The bizarre nature of this case belies the darker context of the moment. Erdogan is criticized by his opponents for presiding over an increasingly authoritarian state, emphasized most garishly in a spate of complaints lodged against civilians for supposedly insulting civilians

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