ANKARA (Reuters) - A man who depicted Tayyip Erdogan as the 'Lord of the Rings' character Gollum was convicted of insulting the president on Thursday and warned he faced a year in jail if he committed another crime, the Hurriyet newspaper reported.
A court in the southwestern province of Antalya sentenced Rifat Cetin - who likened Erdogan on social media to the "small, slimy creature" immortalised in J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy novels - to a year in jail, suspended for five years.
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