IT'S OK FOR ERDOGAN TO INSULT THE PRESIDENT OF FRANCE, BUT DON'T DARE TO INSULT THE TURKISH DICTATOR

Turkey’s Erdogan Sues Dutch Anti-Islam Lawmaker for Insults

 

Associated Press

October 27, 2020

 

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is suing Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders after the anti-Islam politician posted a series of tweets against the Turkish leader, including one that described him as a “terrorist.”

The state-run Anadolu Agency said Erdogan’s lawyer on Tuesday filed a criminal complaint against Wilders at the Ankara Chief Prosecutor’s office for “insulting the president” — a crime in Turkey punishable by up to four years in prison.

Wilders posted a cartoon depicting Erdogan wearing a bomb-resembling hat on his head, with the comment: “terrorist.”

Wilders continued posting tweets targeting Erdogan this week amid a growing quarrel between Turkey and European countries sparked by Erdogan’s sharp comments against French President Emmanuel Macron, including remarks questioning Macron’s mental health over his stance on Islam.

Erdogan has persistently sued people for alleged insults since he took office as president in 2014. Thousands have been convicted. More than 29,000 people were prosecuted on charges of insulting Erdogan last year, according to the Birgun newspaper.

The complaint against Wilders, whose political career has been based largely on his strident anti-Islam rhetoric, accused him of using language “insulting the honor and dignity of our president and of targeting Erdogan’s personality, dignity and reputation,” according to Anadolu.

Wilders, who leads the largest opposition party in the Dutch Parliament, shrugged off the Turkish criminal complaint and described Erdogan as a “loser.” Wilders has lived under tight security for 16 years due to death threats following his anti-Islam rhetoric.

On Monday, Turkey’s Daily Sabah newspaper, which is close to Erdogan, printed pictures of Wilders and Macron, with the headline: “the two faces of hatred and racism in Europe.”

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Charlie Hebdo front page caricature of Erdogan sparks Ankara’s fury

 

By William Dupuy

 

YRT News

October 28. 2020

 

Turkey reacted strongly to a caricature of its president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which appeared in front page on Wednesday in Charlie Hebdo, accusing the French satirical weekly of “cultural racism”.

The Turkish authorities obviously did not appreciate the humor of Charlie Hebdo. Turkey condemned, Tuesday, October 27, the news headline of the satirical newspaper which shows Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a T-shirt and underwear, drinking a beer and lifting the skirt of a woman wearing the veil, thus revealing her bare buttocks.

“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.

Charlie Hebdo had published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2006 like other European newspapers to defend 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.