Turkish Human Rights Activist Sentenced To Six Months For “Insulting Turkishness”

Agence France Presse reports that a Turkish court has convicted a human rights activist of “insulting Turkishness” by telling the German paper Der Tagesspiegel that the Turkish army had too much political influence. Eren Keskin received a six month prison sentence. She says she will appeal. Read more here. This provision in the Turkish Penal Code is the same one under which a number of writers and academics have been prosecuted.