Man Pretending to be 'God' on Twitter sentenced to 15 months by Turkish court

Turkey's controversial ban on Twitter may have lifted, but it's still a dangerous country from which to tweet.
A man referred to as "Ertan P." has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for maintaining a Twitter account that jokingly pretended to be God. It used the handle @allahcc, with "CC" a reference to the Arabic phrase "Celle Celaluhu" a refernce to God's glory.


According to Turkey's Hurriyet Daily News, Ertan, a schoolteacher, claimed he'd been hacked. While that claim didn't hold up in court, the account has since been gutted. It appears to have been taken over by someone else, and only one tweet remains: a 2012 reference to actually being run by a different account.

 Twitter atheism is a tough racket in Turkey. In September, renowned pianist Fazil Say got a 10-month sentence for tweeting a few anti-Islamic sentiments.
                                                                                                                  -via Daily Dot