Turkey: prominent journalist detained for insulting president Erdoğan

Sedef Kabaş faces imprisonment for saying a proverb, with colleagues condemning arrest as attempt to intimidate media A prominent Turkish TV journalist has been detained and could face imprisonment after being charged with insulting the country's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Police detained Sedef Kabaş at her home at 2am on Saturday and took her to a police station, before she faced court and was jailed pending a trial.