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Turkey rebels over caricature mocking Erdogan on Charlie Hebdo front page

2020-10-27T22:26:47.408Z


Ankara on Tuesday accused the satirical weekly of "spreading its cultural racism and hatred".Turkey reacted strongly on Tuesday to a caricature of its president Recep Tayyip Erdogan to appear on Wednesday in Charlie Hebdo, accusing the French satirical weekly of " cultural racism ". " We condemn this utterly despicable effort by this publication to spread its cultural racism and hatred, " the Turkish President's senior press adviser, Fahrettin Altun, said on Twitter. He presented this pub


Turkey reacted strongly on Tuesday to a caricature of its president Recep Tayyip Erdogan to appear on Wednesday in Charlie Hebdo, accusing the French satirical weekly of "

cultural racism

".

"

We condemn this utterly despicable effort by this publication to spread its cultural racism and hatred,

" the Turkish President's senior press adviser, Fahrettin Altun, said on Twitter.

He presented this publication as the result of "

French President Macron's anti-Muslim program

".

The cartoon, released online Tuesday night, shows Mr. Erdogan, in a T-shirt and underwear, drinking a beer and lifting the skirt of a woman wearing the veil, revealing his bare buttocks.

A very lively controversy has been opposing for weeks President Emmanuel Macron and his Turkish counterpart, the latter having gone so far as to question the "

mental health

" of the French president about his positions on radical Islamism and freedom. expression.

Charlie Hebdo had published caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in 2006 - like other European newspapers - in defense of press freedom after their publication by a Danish daily angered many Muslims.

The weekly was the victim in 2015 of a jihadist attack which killed 12 people, including journalists and cartoonists from the newspaper.

Source: lefigaro

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