

Neither the prosecutor nor the chief judge had seen the movies, despite the Gollum character being at the centre of the case. After no decision could be reached in the fourth hearing of the case, the judge ordered the investigation to be conducted by no less than five people: two academics, two behavioural scientists or psychologists, and an expert on cinema and television productions.

Local news site Today’s Zaman reports Dr Çiftçi faces a prison sentence of up to two years. tiktok memelord memes memeacademy memehistory memedump. The meme compares three images of Mr Erdogan with Gollum, brought to life in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy by Andy Serkis, showing them both eating, expressing surprise and amazement. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum developer to close after disastrous launch Polygon.

The judge made the bizarre request in the case against Dr Bilgin Çiftçi, a physician from Aydın in Western Turkey, who is on trial for sharing a meme which compared the popular character’s facial expressions to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.ĭr Çiftçi, who was expelled from his job at the Public Health Institution of Turkey in October, is on trial for insulting the Russian plane-destroying, enthusiastic journalist-jailing, definitely-not-ISIS-funding president Erdogan. A TURKISH judge has ordered an “expert investigation” into the Lord of the Rings character Gollum to determine whether being compared to the diminutive ring-fancier is an insult.
