{"id":60243,"date":"2026-04-13T19:26:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/60243\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T19:26:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:26:37","slug":"eu-rapporteur-slams-detention-of-stand-up-comedian-in-turkey-over-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/60243\/","title":{"rendered":"EU rapporteur slams detention of stand-up comedian in Turkey over joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Tuba-Ulu.jpeg\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"435\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- alt=\"\" title=\"Tuba Ulu\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Tuba-Ulu-696x435.jpeg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"435\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Tuba-Ulu-696x435.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Tuba Ulu\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>European Parliament Turkey rapporteur Nacho Sanchez Amor on Friday condemned\u00a0the brief detention of a stand-up comedian as \u201cdeeply alarming\u201d after Turkish authorities launched an investigation over a joke she made during a performance and <a href=\"https:\/\/ifade.org.tr\/engelliweb\/komedyen-tuba-ulunun-sosyal-medya-hesaplari\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blocked<\/a> access to her X and YouTube accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez Amor said the case showed that pressure on free speech in Turkey had become \u201calmost dystopian,\u201d warning that it was creating a \u201ccontrolled, muted and dull society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It seems an anecdote, but it\u2019s deeply alarming when a country detains comedians over harmless jokes. The pressure on free speech we see in \ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\uddf7 is almost dystopian. It&#8217;s just about chilling everyone\u2019s willingness to speak their mind. A controlled, muted &amp; now also dull society. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l8u8I7hCYq\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/l8u8I7hCYq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nacho S\u00e1nchez Amor (@NachoSAmor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NachoSAmor\/status\/2042592218968437202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stand-up comedian Tuba Ulu was briefly <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/turkish-comedian-detained-over-joke-about-ottoman-sultan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">detained<\/a> on Thursday after a video circulated on social media showing her making a joke about Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his wife, including explicit language, during a performance.<\/p>\n<p>The \u0130stanbul Chief Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office launched an investigation into Ulu on accusations of \u201cinsulting historical, national and moral values,\u201d while authorities on Friday blocked her X and YouTube accounts, citing national security and public order.<\/p>\n<p>The case added to mounting concerns about freedom of expression in Turkey, where critics say criminal investigations, detentions and online censorship are increasingly used to silence dissent.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/turkey-earns-worst-due-process-score-globally-after-sharp-decline-in-freedoms-under-erdogan-freedom-house\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Freedom in the World 2026<\/a> report published by Freedom House\u00a0classifies Turkey as \u2018Not Free, pointing to one of the sharpest declines in freedoms globally over the past two decades under President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan.<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n                                                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; European Parliament Turkey rapporteur Nacho Sanchez Amor on Friday condemned\u00a0the brief detention of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[1120,11968,312,33291,8014,429,131,32182,132,32183,155],"class_list":{"0":"post-60243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-stockholm","8":"tag-free-speech","9":"tag-freedom-of-expression","10":"tag-human-rights","11":"tag-insulting-historical-national-and-moral-values","12":"tag-nacho-sanchez-amor","13":"tag-oppression","14":"tag-stockholm","15":"tag-suleiman-the-magnificient","16":"tag-sweden","17":"tag-tuba-ulu","18":"tag-turkey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116399045819499451","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}