A Turkish court found Nisanyan guilty of "publicly insulting the religious values of part of the population" in a 2012 post he wrote about "Innocence of Muslims," which sparked protests across the Arab world.
At least 40 people are dead and dozens more are injured after multiple car bombs went off in the Turkish town of Reyhanli, near the long border with war-torn Syria.
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