Turkish actress Melisa Sozen has been questioned by police in Istanbul on suspicion of “selling terrorist propaganda” in a French TV spy collection in 2017, studies say.
Sozen, 39, performed a double agent preventing Islamist militants within the hit present The Bureau.
In current months she has been focused on social media as a result of her character Esrin wore a uniform thought-about just like that of the Syria-based Kurdish militia YPG, designated as a terrorist group in Turkey.
Sozen is known to have given a press release to police on her return to Turkey from overseas, however was not detained, in response to the DHA information company.
She is reported to have advised police she was unaware the costume used within the collection bore a resemblance to a terror group and that The Bureau was not proven in Turkey anyway.
When she got here below hearth on social media final August, Sozen launched a press release on Instagram stating there had been no reward for any “terror organisation” within the programme, and that if there had been it might have come up within the seven years because it was first broadcast.
“I don’t settle for the false accusations thrown at me,” she pressured. The collection was not a hidden undertaking, however a extremely fashionable French crime collection.
Sozen stated she had been performing for 25 years and had already developed a thick pores and skin earlier than being subjected to bullying on the web.
Nonetheless, she stated it was nearly unattainable for youthful folks with little life expertise to deal with such abuse.
Sozen’s profession started in Turkish TV and movie, however she received worldwide approval for the movie Winter Sleep, which received the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2014.
