Lawyer Bolaç accused of “insulting the president” for sharing caricature by Brazilian artist Latuff

The Turkish state has every critical portrayal of the president prosecuted. This also applies to the works of internationally known caricaturists.

A work by Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff, in which Berkin Elvan, killed by a gas grenade by Turkish police, is holding the Turkish president and a Turkish police officer by the collar has led to a case against lawyer Efkan Bolaç.

Bolaç shared the cartoon on social media in January 2016 and wrote below it: “He is the boy of the Gezi resistance. Berkin Elvan would now be 17 years old.”

Speaking in the trial, the lawyer said: “You are charging me with defamation for sharing this cartoon… Gezi and Berkin are our honor. Of course I will stand up for it.”