Ah, the decisions that judges must make. A Turkish judge must decide if Gollum, the character from "The Lord of the Rings" films, is a good guy or a villain. A man's freedom hinges on that ...

A Turkish man, Bilgin Ciftci, made a meme comparing the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to the Lord of the Rings series' tiny CGI creature Gollum. Insulting the President is a crime in ...

Bilgin Ciftci, a doctor in Turkey, is in hot water after sharing an image on Twitter comparing the nation's president to Gollum from the Lord of the Rings movies. Why? Because of a local law that ...

Is Gollum a good guy? According to the Turkish news agency DHA, Çiftçi was expelled from the Public Health Institution of Turkey in October after sharing a meme comparing Turkish President ...

Istanbul - A Turkish court has asked experts to analyse the "Lord of the Rings" character Gollum to decide whether a doctor should be jailed for comparing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the figure, ...

In October, a physician named Bilgin Ciftci was fired from his job at the Public Health Institution of Turkey after he shared a meme that juxtaposed Gollum (a slimy, menacing humanoid) and Erdogan ...