Turkey to take legal, diplomatic steps against French caricature of Erdogan

[snoop1130]

Turkey to take legal, diplomatic steps against French caricature of Erdogan

 

FILE PHOTO: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan addresses members of his ruling AK Party (AKP) during a meeting at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, October 14, 2020. Murat Cetinmuhurdar/Presidential Press Office/Handout via REUTERS

 

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey said on Wednesday it will take legal and diplomatic steps in response to a caricature of President Tayyip Erdogan in the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, which officials called a "disgusting effort" to "spread its cultural racism and hatred".

 

Turkish anger at the caricature added fuel to a row between Turkey and France about cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, which flared after a teacher who had shown pupils the cartoons in a lesson on freedom of speech was beheaded in France this month.

 

The cartoon on the cover of Charlie Hebdo showed Erdogan sitting in a white T-shirt and underpants, holding a canned drink along with a woman wearing an Islamic hijab.

 

"Our people should have no doubt that all necessary legal and diplomatic steps will be taken against the caricature in question," Turkey's Communications Directorate said.

 

"Our battle against these rude, ill-intentioned and insulting steps will continue until the end with reason but determination," it said in a statement.

 

Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul told reporters in Ankara that Turkish authorities had taken all necessary initiatives with the relevant authorities. State media also reported that Turkish prosecutors had launched an investigation into Charlie Hebdo's executives.

 

Top Turkish officials had condemned the caricature, with presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin saying it had no respect for "any belief, sacredness and values" and showed "their own vulgarity and immorality. He said the caricature could not be considered freedom of expression.

 

Turkish presidential communications director Fahrettin Altun said "Macron’s anti-Muslim agenda is bearing fruit!"

 

"We condemn this most disgusting effort by this publication to spread its cultural racism and hatred," Altun wrote on Twitter.

 

Erdogan sharply criticised Macron at the weekend, saying the French leader needed a mental health check, prompting France to recall its ambassador from Ankara. On Monday, Erdogan urged a boycott of French products.

 

The Prophet Mohammad cartoons, considered blasphemous by Muslims, have been displayed in France in solidarity and Macron has said he would redouble efforts to stop conservative Islamic beliefs subverting French values, angering many Muslims.

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-10-28

 

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[sammieuk1]

Oh dear the sultan has been insulted how this is humanly possible is anyone's guess ????

 

 

[KannikaP]

They obviously have nothing like Spitting Image on Turkish TV!

[sammieuk1]

[Ventenio]

Must be near Christmas, because this is one big snowflake.

 

cultural racism and hatred..........yea, I think a blizzard is coming

 

let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

[candide]

He obviously never saw Macron's caricatures! ????

[herfiehandbag]

"Charlie Hebdo'" is a scurrilous, abusive, disgraceful gutter publication, not even fit for wrapping a kebab with.

 

Jolly funny though.

 

Je suis Charlie!

[fangless]

1 hour ago, herfiehandbag said:

"Charlie Hebdo'" is a scurrilous, abusive, disgraceful gutter publication, not even fit for wrapping a kebab with.

 

Jolly funny though.

 

Je suis Charlie!

I agree and disagree with each part of your comments in equal measures.

Bloody brilliant!!

 

????

PS;  Would you believe I tried to find/insert a "Muslim" emoji  instead of the one I used but TV do not appear to have one!

Tut Tut, what discrimination!!

[fangless]

3 hours ago, KannikaP said:

They obviously have nothing like Spitting Image on Turkish TV!

Do they have either comedy, satire or God forbid even uncensored TV in that supposedly "secular" country?

[Opl]

Erdogan will enjoy this one (the French part) on 2017  Bastille Day Parade in Paris

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[mfd101]

Erdogan is becoming his own caricature. This is what happens to dictators nearing their use-by date.

[pacovl46]

Erdogan is a dinosaur that needs to go! I remember when he went to the US and protesters were chanting ‘Erdogan terrorist’ when he walked out. Instead of brushing it off and giving them the cold shoulder he sent his bodyguards over to yell aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh to drone them out! ???????????? It couldn’t have been more embarrassing than that!  If I remember correctly his bodyguards also beat a few of them up. 
 

He’s one of those ‘they insulted my honor and now I have to do something about it’ guys! 

[SomchaiCNX]

How do you call that in English "small di...ck syndrome" ? ????

As told before, it is time Europe will take of this idiot and his followers that live in their country.

[holy cow cm]

So Turkey needs to blow the big French banana flute and shut the h up. Nobody gives a rats rse about Mohamed except brainwashed Muslims. If you can call it a religion, it is based on hatred and killing and rape and condones pedophilia. Yuck!

[nobodysfriend]

17 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Turkish anger at the caricature added fuel to a row between Turkey and France about cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, which flared after a teacher who had shown pupils the cartoons in a lesson on freedom of speech was beheaded in France this month.

 

A bloody beheading after some cartoons of '  Mohammed the prophet ' have been shown in a classroom ?

To show the cartoons may , for some , represent kind of an insult , but a murder , a beheading , is another kind of crime .

There are a lot of muslims in France who hate the french and their lifestyle .

Macron is right if he says that he will ' crack down ' on islamic movements in France who want to spread terror and destabilize society and bring social unrest .

Erdogan just wants attention as he considers himself ' a great islamic leader ' .

[Opl]

27 minutes ago, nobodysfriend said:

A bloody beheading after some cartoons of '  Mohammed the prophet ' have been shown in a classroom ?

To show the cartoons may , for some , represent kind of an insult , but a murder , a beheading , is another kind of crime .

There are a lot of muslims in France who hate the french and their lifestyle .

Macron is right if he says that he will ' crack down ' on islamic movements in France who want to spread terror and destabilize society and bring social unrest .

Erdogan just wants attention as he considers himself ' a great islamic leader ' .

 as Charlie Hebdo  nailed it on 2016   cover ( Barcelona Ramblas attack)  - " Islam religion of peace .... eternal"

as of today, since 2015 ( Charlie Hebdo terror attack)  attacks, attributed or claimed by  Islamists have killed over 260 p in France 

just a reminder

 

[holy cow cm]

3 hours ago, Opl said:

 as Charlie Hebdo  nailed it on 2016   cover ( Barcelona Ramblas attack)  - " Islam religion of peace .... eternal"

as of today, since 2015 ( Charlie Hebdo terror attack)  attacks, attributed or claimed by  Islamists have killed over 260 p in France 

just a reminder

 

Sorry but these people are just big Muslim turds. Pack them all up out of every Western country and send em back to Muslim la la land where they kill each other. 

[johng]

21 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Top Turkish officials had condemned the caricature, with presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin saying it had no respect for "any belief, sacredness and values" and showed "their own vulgarity and immorality. He said the caricature could not be considered freedom of expression.

 

Notice no condemnation of the vile beheading of a teacher for  showing kids some cartoon !!!

[pacovl46]

7 hours ago, holy cow cm said:

So Turkey needs to blow the big French banana flute and shut the h up. Nobody gives a rats rse about Mohamed except brainwashed Muslims. If you can call it a religion, it is based on hatred and killing and rape and condones pedophilia. Yuck!

That’s such a cretinous stereotype that it’s not even funny anymore! Of course there’s evil people that are blinded by fanatics to commit those heinous crimes amongst moslems, no doubt about it,  but you can’t really blame that on the religion itself, just like you can’t blame what went on with the IRA in Northern Ireland not that long ago, or the inquisition, the crusades or the witch burnings on Christianity! As always it’s the effed up people that are responsible for that! If people were actually to live by their religion, no matter which one it is, then the world would be a much better and much more peaceful place, and that’s coming from an atheist!