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Have You Ever Been in a Turkish Prison?

Charles Oliver | 4.26.2013 11:20 AM


A Turkish court has given classical pianist Fazil Say a 10-month suspended sentence for defaming Islam on Twitter. One of his tweets, for instance, mocked the rapid call to prayer at a local mosque, with Say asking if the announcer had a woman or an alcoholic drink he was in a hurry to get to.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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