Recep Tayyip Erdogan sbracato on a chair, in his underwear and T-shirt, his stomach out, who lifts the dress of a veiled woman to reveal her lower back and shouts: «Oh! The Prophet!”. It is the cartoon that yesterday Charlie Hebdo published on the cover, just as the controversy between Turkey and France over freedom of expression is raging. The Turkish president did not take it well. “I haven’t even looked at this caricature,” he said, “because I refuse to give importance to these immoral publications. There is nothing to say about these scoundrels. ‘ The “Sultan” Erdogan was not exactly impassive and, as is his style, he has filed a lawsuit for insult and defamation against the director, the editor-in-chief and the caricaturist author of the cartoon to which the opening of an official criminal proceeding by the Ankara Public Prosecutor’s Office was added.
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The reply of the Elysée was not long in coming. France “will never renounce its principles and values”, despite “attempts at destabilization and intimidation,” government spokesman Gabriel Attal said. The French weekly has been in the crosshairs of radical Islam for years for his satire on Mohammed and in 2015 he suffered an attack in which 12 people died. After the brutal murder of Professor Samuel Paty on October 16, Macron had promised an all-out war against the “enemies of the Republic”. Yesterday, during the Council of Ministers, the Muslim association BarakaCity was dissolved and its leaders immediately declared that they wanted to seek asylum in Turkey.
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In recent days Erdogan had accused his French counterpart to have “mental problems” e compared the persecution of Muslims in Europe to that of the Jews during the Nazis. Strong statements that, yesterday, he reiterated: “France and Europe do not deserve politicians like Macron and those who share his mentality “, who” would like to relaunch the Crusades against Islam “. Now Paris asks the EU to prepare sanctions against Ankara ahead of the December European Council. Meanwhile, in Paris, the French inter-ministerial delegate for the fight against racism he denounced to justice the tweet of the Turkish Undersecretary for Culture Serdam Can who had called the journalists of Charlie Hebdo “bastards”.
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October 29, 2020 (change October 29, 2020 | 00:43)
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