Stating that he did not mean to hurt anyone, Turgut said he was sorry for unintentionally hurting Rojin, adding he had tried to expose the wrong side of events by writing absurd and exaggerated columns. In yesterday’s column, titled “I believe Rojin is smart,” Turgut said Turks are able to understand exaggerated jokes but act as if they do not. “There are a lot of local jokes that resort to sexual innuendo. Relying on this, I thought my exaggerated and absurd columns would be understood in time,” he said.Claiming that many female readers of his column understand his humor and that he had thought Rojin would have been among them, Turgut said: “Looking at her speeches and television performances, I thought Rojin was a smart woman. Instead of laughing [at what I wrote], she chose to be a victim.”
He also noted that he had used Rojin’s name because she is a public figure.
In his column, Turgut made mention of his previous column, which he said made use of “black humor” to criticize not letting dogs live in apartment buildings by saying, “Let us throw babies out into the streets instead of throwing the dogs out; that would be much better.”
Rojin, who hosted a talk show on the all-Kurdish TRT 6 station when it began broadcasting in January, has reportedly filed a lawsuit against Turgut claiming that he used his column to attack her due to her ethnicity and gender.
