ANKARA (Reuters) - A Turkish filmmaker was convicted on Friday of membership of a terrorist group for a feature film that portrayed President Tayyip Erdogan having a gun pointed at his head as his family lay dead all around him, the state news agency said.
Ali Avci was arrested last year after the release of a trailer for his film "Awakening", based on a failed military putsch in 2016 in which more than 250 people were killed.
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