The Constitutional Court of Turkey held that the conviction and imprisonment of a teacher for the opinions she expressed on national TV constituted a violation of her freedom of expression. Ayse Celikel, a teacher from the Kurdish region, dialed into a popular talk show in Turkey to convey her distress over the killing of children and civilians in her area during a period of political unrest in the summer of 2016. She was subsequently charged under Article 7/2 of the Anti-Terror Law for presenting the actions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a designated terrorist organization, as legitimate and sentenced to fifteen months of imprisonment. On appeal, the Constitutional Court of Turkey reasoned that statements about the ideology, social or political goals of terrorist organizations, or about those organizations’ opinions on political, social and economic issues, do not constitute terrorist propaganda, unless they encourage or incite violent acts.