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Türkiye: Zehra Ömeroğlu and the Price of Humour

Summary by Freemuse
On 26 June 2025, the 14th hearing of the trial against cartoonist Zehra Ömeroğlu will take place in Istanbul. Accused of ‘obscenity’ she faces up to three years in prison. In countries like Türkiye, where violations of freedom of expression are frequent, life itself can sometimes take the form of dark humour. Going back even before the founding of the Republic of Türkiye, it reads like a bitter joke that Abdülhamit II, the first Ottoman sultan t…
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Freemuse broke the news in on Thursday, June 19, 2025.
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