Turkey: Journalist fined over 'adultery' comments

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has successfully sued a journalist who criticised government attempts to criminalise adultery by saying the premier had reduced politics to the “level of the crotch”.

The premier, who once was imprisoned for reciting a poem deemed to be an attack on the state, is coming under intense criticism for what journalist groups have called an increasing disregard for press freedoms.