A Turkish newspaper landed itself in a criminal investigation after publishing a social-media graphic reading _“Erdoğan Vefat Etti”_ — _“**Erdoğan has died**”_ — creating the impression that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had died.

The report was actually an obituary for a local woman named Gülşen Erdoğan. The ambiguity was amplified by Turkish grammar: the phrase itself does not indicate gender, while the social-media graphic omitted the woman’s first name and displayed only the surname Erdoğan.

The Aydın Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation under Article 217/A of the Turkish Criminal Code for the “public dissemination of misleading information.”

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