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Unemployment and lack of love prompted the actions (Photo: European Commission)

Turk jailed for 22 years for desecrating Ataturk busts

Just days before a key EU report on Turkey’s human rights record, an Ankara court has sentenced a Turkish man to 22 and a half years in prison for smearing oil paint on busts of Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey.

According to press reports, 30 year old Murat Vural this year on five occasions tipped paint on busts of Turkey’s founding father in an Ankara suburb.

Mr Vural was subsequently arrested and charged under a Turkish constitutional law protecting the late Mr Atatur...

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Unemployment and lack of love prompted the actions (Photo: European Commission)

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