FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016 file photo, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses a meeting of local administrators at his palace in Ankara, Turkey. Turkey's justice minister said Monday Feb. 29, 2016, as many as 1,845 cases have been opened against people accused of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan since he came to office in 2014. Erdogan has been accused of aggressively using a previously seldom-used law that bars insults to the president, as a way to muffle dissent. (Yasin Bulbul/Presidential Press Service, Pool via AP, File)
