Turkish journalist Ipek Calislar was acquitted for allegedly insulting Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, considered the founder of modern Turkey.
The BBC reported that prosecutors claimed Ms. Calislar had insulted Ataturk in a biography of Ataturk’s wife Latife, in which Calislar reportedly wrote that Ataturk had once fled disguised as a woman.
Calislar faced up to four years in prison for violating Turkey’s law against denigrating “Turkishness.” Photo and story here.
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