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Merve Buyuksarac: ‘Former Miss Turkey’ found guilty of insulting Erdogan

Merve Buyuksarac: Former Miss Turkey found guilty of insulting Erdogan

Merve Buyuksarac, an industrial designer, writer, and former Miss Turkey, has been punished with a 14-month suspended sentence for “insulting” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. To earn the sentence, Merve Buyuksarac reportedly shared a quote from a satirical poem on her Instagram account in 2014. According to the lawyers of the Turkish President, the post as “an attack against the …

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