Fashion designer Barboros Şansal, who sparked adverse reactions due to a new year’s video he shared, was attacked by a group of passengers and detained by police at İstanbul Atatürk Airport on Monday evening.
In response to a question under custody on a tweet posted from his account, Şansal argued that he did not write such a message as his lawyer Efkan Bolaç said that the screenshot of the controversial message shows that it was posted before the attack at İstanbul nightclub. The tweet which received criticism read that Sunni Muslims dressed as Santa Claus massacred people at Reina nightclub because its owner and staff are Alevis.
In the video that sparked outrage among people in Turkey, Şansal uses slang while criticising several scandals that took place throughout 2016 in an effort to emphasize that there is no reason to celebrate the new year, Turkish Minute reports.
