Turkish influencer prosecuted ‘for photos at Amsterdam sex museum’

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A Turkish social media influencer says she’s being prosecuted in her country for posting “joke” photos inside the world-famous Sex Museum in Amsterdam. Merve Taskin, 23, shared pictures of sex toys she bought at the museum during a birthday trip to the Netherlands in January last year. A few months later she says she was arrested in Turkey, where sharing obscene content is considered a crime. Now she says she has been summoned to court to face obscenity charges. Under Turkish law, any person who publishes obscene material can be fined or sentenced to jail for up to three years. “My purpose was to make jokes,” Ms Taskin, a prominent Instagram personality in Turkey with almost 600,000 followers, told the BBC.(BBC)…[+]