Ankara has accused Charlie Hebdo of selling hatred after the French satirical journal printed a front-page caricature of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, amid cultural tensions between France and Muslim international locations.
The cartoon exhibits the Turkish chief lounging in his underwear with a can of beer in his hand as he lifts up the skirt of a girl carrying a hijab, exposing her bottom.
“Oh, the prophet!” the cartoon Erdogan exclaims. Charlie Hebdo captioned the caricature: “Erdogan: in personal, he’s very humorous.”
Erdogan : dans le privé, il est très drôle !
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— Charlie Hebdo (@Charlie_Hebdo_) October 27, 2020
Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay blasted the journal for the duvet artwork, calling on the worldwide group to “converse out towards this shame.”
“You can’t deceive anybody by hiding behind freedom of opinion! I condemn the immoral publication of the inexcusable French rag about our President,” he tweeted.
The nation’s communications director, Fahrettin Altun, went a step additional by suggesting that the journal had been emboldened by the French authorities.
“French President Macron’s anti-Muslim agenda is bearing fruit! Charlie Hebdo simply printed a sequence of so-called cartoons stuffed with despicable photographs purportedly of our President. We condemn this most disgusting effort by this publication to unfold its cultural racism and hatred,” he wrote.
In a sequence of follow-up tweets, the spokesman reiterated that Turkey opposes “any acts of terrorism within the title of Islam.”
“Nevertheless, we is not going to stay silent within the face of disgusting assaults on our tradition and faith irrespective of the place it comes from,” Altun vowed.
The so-called caricatures are loathsome and they’re devoid of any actual sense of human decency. It’s clearly the product of a xenophobic, Islamophobic, and illiberal cultural setting the French management appears to need for his or her nation.
— Fahrettin Altun (@fahrettinaltun) October 27, 2020
The provocative journal cowl comes amid an ongoing verbal fracas between Erdogan and French President Emmanuel Macron, following the stunning homicide of French schoolteacher Samuel Paty, who was beheaded by a Chechen refugee after the native Muslim group denounced him for educating a lesson on freedom of expression which included Charlie Hebdo cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
Macron has cracked down on Islamic extremism and has promised to uphold secular values, saying that France will “not surrender our cartoons.” His feedback prompted a harsh response throughout Muslim international locations. Erdogan himself has questioned Macron’s psychological capability and known as on his fellow countrymen to boycott French merchandise.
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Charlie Hebdo has been focused for its incendiary cartoons up to now. In 2015, 12 folks had been killed when Islamist terrorists stormed the journal’s workplaces in Paris. The journal has since modified its location, with the brand new deal with being stored secret for safety causes. Earlier this 12 months, Charlie Hebdo reprinted a few of its cartoons. Shortly afterwards, a knife-wielding man injured two folks outdoors the journal’s former workplaces. The assault was branded as “an act of Islamist terrorism” by the French inside minister.
