Erdoğan–Gollum comparison trials
2010s and 2020s Turkish legal proceedings / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the president of Turkey, has been compared to Gollum—a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings and its film adaptations—in social media posts, which has led to several trials for insulting the president in the 2010s and 2020s in Turkey.