SR1m for ‘freedom phone’

Pro-Erdogan supporters gather at Taksim square in Istanbul to support the government on July 16, 2016, following a failed coup attempt. Turkish authorities said they had regained control of the country on Saturday after thwarting a coup attempt by discontented soldiers to seize power from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that claimed more than 250 lives. (AFP)

JEDDAH: A Saudi known as Abu Rakan has offered to buy for SR1 million the mobile phone of the broadcast journalist of CNN Turk on which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appealed to people to come out in streets and defeat the coup. The offer came on Rakan’s Twitter account where he described the gadget as the “phone of freedom.” While some twitterati ridiculed the offer, others said this was demeaning of a major event that shook the world.