A military school teacher in Istanbul, Turkey has been sentenced to one year in prison for likening Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Germany's Adolf Hitler, the Hurriyet Daily News (Turkish) website reports today (September 6, 2012).
The court found Oktay Zaif -- who showed footage of speeches by Hitler and Erdogan during class hours -- guilty of "politically aiming to distance military students from Prime Minister Erdogan and his party."
Zaif, however, claimed he was unaware of the content of the video, and turned it off when he heard the prime minister's voice.
"I downloaded the video from the Internet because it was related to World War II," Zaif said. "I discovered the content on the prime minister after it began playing. I turned it off then."
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