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Turkish President Warns Online Users He’ll Sue Anybody Who Insults Him

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has warned the public that he will sue anybody who dares to insult him or his regime in Turkey.  The President has vowed to strengthen already strict rules where opponents, critics and journalists are imprisoned if they speak out against his regime. Speaking in Washington at the Nuclear Security Summit, a day before an Istanbul court resumes a trial of two high-profile Turkish journalists charged with insulting the President, Erodgan announced: “I would (thank) each and everyone one of those who criticize me but if they were to insult me, my lawyers will go and file a lawsuit”. Yahoo News reports: A Turkish court on Friday resumes hearings in the trial of the two journalists for publishing footage that purportedly showed Turkey’s intelligence agency shipping truckloads of weapons to opposition fighters in Syria in early 2014. As protesters chanted and waved banners outside, Turkish security personnel tried to block three Turkish journalists from covering the event, held at the Brookings Institution think tank. Adem Yavuz Arslan, a reporter with Ozgur Dusunce, a Turkish opposition newspaper affiliated with U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, a former Erdogan ally, said the security guards threatened him. “They said, ‘We are going to kill you. You [...]