Turkish fashion designer faces prison time over retweets
Barbaros Şansal is a Turkish fashion designer and political activist. He faces a long prison sentence over allegedly insulting Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Twitter.
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The Turkish fashion designer has been sued by...
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