The actress of the “Legends Office” Melisa Sözen heard for “terrorism” by the police in Türkiye

According to the DHA agency and the Halk TV television channel, close to the opposition, the 39 -year -old actress was arrested on Monday while she was returning from abroad, at the request of the Attanbul General Prosecutor who opened an investigation for “terrorist organization propaganda”. Melisa Sözen was heard by the police and left free, said the press.

“I am someone who loves his country and his nation”

In a declaration, she assured that she had ignored that she was carrying for her role the uniform of Kurdish Syrian combatants of the YPG, which Ankara considers as affiliated to the Kurdistan workers (PKK), armed movement classified as a terrorist and prohibited in Turkey. “I played the role of a double agent. The series was not broadcast in Türkiye. I am someone who loves her country and her nation “defended the young woman, quoted by Halk TV.

The daily of opposition Hürriyet, who also reported the episode, notes that Melisa Sözen has shot in more than twenty famous series in Turkey and in the cinema, notably in “Winter Sleep” by Turkish director Nori Bilge, Palme Gold in Cannes in 2014. The investigation open against the actress, more than seven years after the facts, is part of a series of arrests and trials aimed at journalists, lawyers, political personalities and the world cultural and artistic.