A Turkish policeman whose teargassing of a woman in a red dress became a symbol of environmental protests two years ago has been ordered by a court to plant 600 trees. The image of Ceyda Sungur, dubbed the 'lady in red', her hair billowing upwards as officer Fatih Zengin sprayed tear gas in her face, was endlessly shared on social media. It was also replicated as a cartoon on posters, mugs and stickers during the protests in Istanbul. After being found guilty misconduct yesterday, Zengin's sentence appeared to contain a deliberate irony. The protests, which began as a bid to stop the redevelopment of Gezi Park in central Istanbul, were dismissed by the government at the time as 'nothing to do with trees'.Fatih Zengin sprayed tear gas in the face of a woman wearing a red dressPicture swept across the web and featured on posters, mugs and stickersIronic sentence after government said riots were 'nothing to do with trees'
The _ court handed down a suspended sentence of 20 months in jail, which Zengin will only serve if he repeats the offence in the next five years.