Turkish police detained actor Barış Atay on Wednesday morning after Hürriyet daily columnist Ahmet Hakan wrote an article and targeted him by saying “teaching him his lesson” following Atay’s message on Twitter about an apology by a former aide of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for kicking a man protesting Turkey’s worst mining disaster.
Atay’s lawyer Efkan Bolaç announce that he has been taken to Security Directorate after his detention, police didn’t search his house and his phone or other electronic devices weren’t seized by police.
Bolaç said the police told Atay that “there is a detention warrant issued for him due to a tweet he posted.” However, neither Atay nor his lawyer were informed of the details of the investigation.
Scores of people have been arrested in Turkey for tweets critical of the president and government under sweeping state of emergency powers put in place in the wake of a controversial coup attempt on July 15, 2016.
The former Erdoğan aide, Yusuf Yerkel, became notorious in Turkey after he was photographed kicking a protester in the wake of the 2013 Soma mining disaster in which 301 people died. Yerkel never faced any charges, but apologised on Monday, on the fourth anniversary of the accident, after the main opposition presidential candidate Muharrem İnce vowed to hold him to account for the attack.
Atay, who has appeared in a number of film and television roles in Turkey, responded to Yerkel’s apology on Twitter: “You are all going to apologise in tears. When that day comes, we are not going to forget the forgiver, the empathiser and those who decided against a trial! … You are going to be held accountable for what you’ve done to this country and its people!”
Pro-Erdoğan columnist Ahmet Hakan responded to the actor in his Tuesday column by demanding opposition presidential candidates put Atay in his place.
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