In today’s Turkey, threats to kill Americans and Jews are deemed protected free speech - Nordic Monitor

In today’s Turkey, threats to kill Americans and Jews are deemed protected free speech - Nordic Monitor

Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm In yet another troubling sign of Turkey’s increasingly partisan judiciary — dominated by Islamists and far-right nationalists — the country’s top appeals court has overturned the conviction of a man who publicly vowed to kill Jews, Americans and Kurds. In a ruling issued on March 24, the Supreme Court of Appeals (Yargıtay) overturned a lower court’s verdict that had found the defendant guilty of inciting hatred and hos…