Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday congratulated Palestinian Arab teen Ahed Tamimi in a phone call hours after her release from an Israeli prison, the Turkish daily Hurriyet reported.
Tamimi, 17, who was filmed slapping an Israeli soldier during a protest of leftists and Palestinian Arabs in her town of Nabi Saleh, was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment in practice and fined 5,000 shekels as part of a plea bargain.