Turkey's coercive regime under its strongman, President Tayyip Erdogan has arrested a 16 year old teenager for a speech given at a school protest.
Not content in being considered a corrupt, repressive, misogynistic and anti-semitic regime arresting teens for 'insults' now seems to be the new dirty deed.
The teenager's lawyers have appealed against the prosecution, which came after he read out a statement during a ceremony to commemorate the killing of a Turkish soldier by Islamists in the 1920s.
In a video broadcast by Dogan News Agency, the teenager read out a statement defending secularism and the principles of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the modern Turkish republic.
He slammed the ruling AK Party government and Erdogan personally over corruption allegations, as a crowd surrounding him chanted "everywhere is bribery, everywhere is corruption".
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The boy's arrest sparked fierce criticism of Erdogan by opponents.
Atilla Kart, a lawmaker with the main opposition party CHP, said on Twitter that "an environment of fear, oppression and threat" was being created by the presidency.
Just how low Erdogan will go no one can know. But he goes lower and lower each day digging for his next target of bigotry and abuse.