A famous tweeter is threatened with imprisonment after throwing 100 Turkish lira into the toilet
A social media influencer in Turkey faces a 7-year prison sentence for throwing 100 TL down the toilet.
Turkish prosecutors demanded more than seven years in prison for her, as she was briefly detained in late October after posting a video clip on Instagram in which she threw a 100 Turkish lira note with a picture of the founder of the Turkish state, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, down the toilet.
"People throw money into streams and fountains in Europe, and nothing happens. Is it a crime because I threw 100 lira into the sewage?" said Mika Kan Raun, in response to people who asked why she was throwing money down the toilet in the video posted on October 21. To my beautiful country?
According to the "Russia Today" website, which quoted the news from the Turkish newspaper Zaman, the tweeter faces the charge of insulting Ataturk, and her sentence, according to the Turkish Penal Code, is imprisonment for a period of up to three years.
Raun's post on "Instagram" comes at a time when the lira has lost more than half of its value against the dollar in the past year.
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