Free Speech In Turkey? A Wee Comment Supporting It From US Ambassador? Nopers.
Via @ClaireBerlinski and ‏@AChristieMiller, who tweeted this:

Bizarre comment by US Ambo Ricciardone on the #FazilSay conviction.

Excerpt from Hurriyet link above:

Reactions continued to grow yesterday after a Turkish court convicted world-renowned pianist Fazıl Say with a 10-month suspended prison sentence for blasphemy on April 15.

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said the verdict showed that democracy in Turkey was under threat.

"If you are going to jail our artists, encourage the judiciary in that way. If you are going to abuse the justice system - which does not really exist - I am sad to say that democracy in this country is at stake," Kılıçdaroğlu said at his party's weekly group meeting April 16.

...Say was convicted for "insulting the religious beliefs held by a section of the society" in tweets and retweets posted on his account in April 2012.

The tweets including a couplet attributed to 12th century poet, mathematician and philosopher Omer Khayyam: "You say its rivers will flow in wine. Is the Garden of Eden a drinking house? You say you will give two houris to each Muslim. Is the Garden of Eden a whorehouse?"

Say also tweeted the following observation: "I don't know whether you have noticed or not but wherever there is a stupid person or a thief, they are believers in God. Is this a paradox?"

Our ambassador's remark? Support free speech? Nope -- just this bizarreness:

In an interview with the Hürriyet Daily News in Ankara following the court's decision, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Francis Ricciardone merely said that his brother, David Ricciardone, who is a Supreme Court Judge in Massachusetts, had remarked to him: "A very bad piano player hit the wrong key."