The crime of insulting Ataturk and freedom of speech in Turkey
Is Turkey undergoing a domestic fight for the soul of the nation? Good news came from the court in Turkey for the former Wall Setreet Journal Turkey reporter. A Turkish court threw out the conviction against a former Wall Street Journal reporter Ayla Albayrak, related to terrorist propaganda because of her article in WSJ. But actually Turkey was drawn into an another freedom of expression weighing on November 10, during the death anniversary of the founder of the modern Turkey, Ataturk. In fact, the debate first started in July when a young woman published the video she took at Ataturk's tomb in Ankara and posted it on social media. The woman was telling that Ataturk can’t even be Erdogan’s excrement… She was subsequently arrested for the offense. Then Police held her in custody. She testified her regret and was then released. On November 10, a woman in the western city of Edirne, Trakya University student, said that “Ataturk is not God, Allah has laws” to commemo