An Istanbul court sentenced comedian Deniz Göktaş to 19 months in prison on Monday: 11 months for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, whom he had called a "dictator", and seven for denigrating religious values over a joke about women in full-body Islamic swimwear. He was acquitted of glorifying a criminal gang and released after three months in pretrial detention, though an appeals process that could take years leaves him at risk of returning to jail. The case underscores the shrinking space for political satire in Turkey, where many humorists have fallen silent or left the country amid a wider crackdown on journalists and critics.