The Turkish consulate in Rotterdam requested that Netherlands-based Turkish organizations report anyone defaming the president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.[1] A leader of Germany’s Pirate Party was arrested in Berlin for insulting a “representative of a foreign state” while reading from a satirical poem about Erdogan, a Dutch journalist who tweeted criticism of the president was barred from leaving Turkey, and four academics were tried for spreading “terrorist propaganda” after they signed a petition to end the hostilities between Kurdish rebels and the Turkish government, which seized a number of significant churches and properties in the Kurdish city of Diyarbakir.
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The Turkish consulate in Rotterdam requested that Netherlands-based Turkish organizations report anyone defaming the president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.[1] A leader of Germany’s Pirate Party was arrested in Berlin for insulting a “representative of a foreign state” while reading from a satirical poem about Erdogan, a Dutch journalist who tweeted criticism of the president was barred from leaving Turkey, and four academics were tried for spreading “terrorist propaganda” after they signed a petition to end the hostilities between Kurdish rebels and the Turkish government, which seized a number of significant churches and properties in the Kurdish city of Diyarbakir.