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The 84-year-old actor was put on trial because of his tweets about political issues.

The 83-year-old actor was indicted for insulting Erdoğan in the tweets he posted five years ago.

The 83-year-old actor faces a prison sentence because of his tweets about the presidential system and the decades-long allegations that Erdoğan did not graduate from university.

Summoned to depose at the prosecutor’s office on charge of “insulting the President”, theater actor Genco Erkal has addressed the reporters after leaving the courthouse: “I said I am against the restriction of freedom of expression.”

The play, “At the Table of the Sun - Nâzım and Brecht,” performed by Genco Erkal and Tülay Günal, has been banned for security reasons within the State of Emergency.