Turkish textile worker arrested after protesting economic hardship prior to Erdoğan speech - Turkish Minute

Turkish textile worker arrested after protesting economic hardship prior to Erdoğan speech - Turkish Minute

A Turkish textile worker was arrested and jailed on Saturday after throwing a phone at a stage where President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was waiting to start his speech and displaying protest banners, at a hospital opening in İstanbul.

Turkish textile worker arrested after protesting economic hardship prior to Erdoğan speech - Stockholm Center for Freedom

A Turkish textile worker was arrested and jailed on Saturday after throwing a phone at a stage where President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was waiting to start his speech and displaying protest banners, at a hospital opening in Istanbul, the TR724 news website reported. N.K., 44, a father of three, shouted slogans and held banners reading “AK Party [Justice and Development Party] is the cause, inflation is the result” and tossed his phone toward the st…

A student from Ghent's KASK has been in a Turkish prison for two weeks. She took part in a protest and is accused of insulting President Erdogan. Friends and family are very worried. "She needs medication, but she is not getting it."

During AKP President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s speech at the opening of the Bağcılar Maternity and Child Diseases Hospital, a textile worker who held a banner reading “AK Party is the cause, inflation is the result” and threw her phone towards the platform was arrested.