Miss Turkey Beauty Queen Paid the Price for insulting Turkish  President

Since becoming president in 2014, Erdogan has filed close to 2,000 defamation cases under a previously seldom-used law that bars insulting the president.

Free speech advocates say the law is being used aggressively to silence and intimidate critics.
Buyuksarac, who was crowned Miss Turkey in 2006, was briefly detained last year for sharing a satirical poem on her Instagram account in 2014.

Prosecutors deemed it to be insulting to Erdogan, but she has denied insulting him.

A court in Istanbul found 27-year-old model Merve Buyuksarac guilty of insulting a President Recep Tayyip Erdogan through social media posts.

She’s been given a 14-month sentence, suspended the sentence on condition that she does not re-offend within the next five years.

Her lawyer, Emre Telci, said he would file a formal objection to the verdict and appeal her case at the European Court of Justice in Strasbourg, France.