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Turkish President: Western states attack Islam.
Ankara / Paris. In the dispute with France over the Muhammad cartoons and freedom of expression, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accuses certain countries of “relaunching the crusades.” These are planned by western states attacking Islam, Erdogan said Wednesday in a speech to MPs from his party, the AKP. Facing the attacks on the Prophet Muhammad is “a matter of honor.”
After the beheading of a teacher by a suspected 18-year-old Islamist, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that he would step up action against conservative Islam, which threatens to undermine the values of France. According to Macron, the Mohammed cartoons, which some Muslims consider blasphemous and were used by the teacher in class, should still be able to be published in the course of freedom of expression. Several Muslim countries, especially Turkey, harshly criticized the French government. Erdogan attacked Macron personally and called for a boycott of French products.
Because the French satirical newspaper “Charlie Hebdo” published a cartoon of Erdogan on its cover, Turkey now wants to take all necessary diplomatic and legal measures. Turkish state media reported that the prosecution had launched an investigation into “Charlie Hebdo”.
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