Melisa Sozen questioned in Turkey over role in French TV thriller

Police are said to be investigating her on suspicion of "promoting terrorist propaganda" in the series.

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Sozen, 39, played a double agent fighting Islamist militants in the hit show The Bureau.

In recent months she has been targeted on social media because her character Esrin wore a uniform considered similar to that of the Syria-based Kurdish militia YPG, designated as a terrorist group in Turkey.

Sozen is understood to have given a statement to police on her return to Turkey from abroad, but was not detained, according to the DHA news agency.

She is reported to have told police she was unaware the costume used in the series bore a resemblance to a terror group and that The Bureau was not shown in Turkey anyway.

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