But when it starts to prosecute its brilliant minds with charges as bogus as treason and the military coup, the future seems to be very grim.
I think my father, who left school at 14, saw it as a kind of treason.
A decade later, in London, women were still being burnt at the stake for killing their husbands (viewed as a form of treason).
Lèse-majesté began in French as a crime of treason, but has been Anglicized to mean an offense to the rights of the common people or an outrage to the dignity of their representatives, as in a tinpot dictator's keeping a secretary of state cooling heels in a Syrian waiting room.
ISTANBUL, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has described birth control as a form of "treason," saying it threatened the country's bloodline.
When Logue insists that Albert could be a good king instead of his brother, the latter labels such a suggestion as treason, and in his anger, mocks and dismisses Logue.
That, critics said, would essentially let the authorities interpret any act against the state as treason, a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
His eloquence is treated with suspicion – some find it patronising, others boastful – his failure to commit to a team as treason.
Killing or injuring a swan was once classed as treason under a law dating back to the 12th century.
High treason remained distinct though, from what became known as petty treason: the killing of a lawful superior, such as a husband by his wife.
