Rowan Atkinson attacks new rules that outlaw 'insulting words and behaviour' | Mail Online
Does this mean I have to be nice to ginger haired people ?
And the tossers on forums ?
a man has been jailed for 15 months for supposedly insulting President Gül on Facebook.
the report doesnt repeat what he said.
this is how to bring people to heel
RIGHTS - Man sentenced to one year in prison for insulting Gül on Facebook
I see in the news that an English man has been fined 7080lira after being found guilty of insulting the Turkish Prime Minister.
Imagine having that in England, with Gordon as P.M. they could half the national debt overnight!!!!!!!!!!!
tounge in cheek folks...
I think the original incident may have been posted on TLF (possibly by me!), but I can't find the thread.
Can you imagine if this were the case in Britain? Half the population would be locked up!
'British artist Michael Dickinson has been fined and may face jail time for refusing to pay the...
This report aptly demonstrates the kind of risk faced by website owners.
'The owner of an Internet news portal faces a possible five-year prison sentence because of a reader's comment concerning President Abdullah Gül that was published on his Web site. Barış Yarkadaş says his site is applying...
2012 yes effects were very good. BUT well over 20 times, over and over and over they escaped with point second to spare. I know it's expected. OH a couple of times they ran out of time but still made it!! Were we not supposed to notice, obviously. There is poetic licence and poetic licence...
A 13-year-old boy who shouted, “May God curse you,” as the prime minister’s car was passing by in the Aegean province of Aydın has been charged with “insulting an official based on his occupation.”
PM's altercation with 13-year-old goes to court - Hürriyet Daily News and Economic Review
Recently there was a post the title of the thread was insulting to children..not just children but the term Turkish children..and an insulting epithet added ...sensibly this has been removed.
This forum gets read by many more people than the members, and so while criticism is of course in...
here is a little bit about article 301 which is still causing problems ...
Passed with 250 votes against 65
Despite objections from the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and the Republican People’s Party (CHP), the Turkish Parliament (TBMM) passed the bill to revise Article 301 with 250 votes...
A man from the Aegean resort town of Bodrum is facing charges of “insulting the spirit of Turkishness” after being taken into custody by the police Monday for dressing his dog in a t-shirt that said “Turk.”
Interior decorator Tulga Hepiş, who was taking part in an anti-terrorism rally in...