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The Turkish authorities have expressed their indignation by condemning the French magazine Charlie Hebdo for “lack of morals” for having published on the cover of its new issue a cartoon of the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reported this Wednesday the station CNNTürk.
“They are showing their own vulgarity and lack of morale. An attack on personal rights it is not humor or freedom of expression“Ibrahim Kalin, a spokesman for the Turkish presidency, wrote in a tweet last night.
The aim of these publications, devoid of morals and decency, is to sow seeds of hatred and animosity. Turning freedom of speech into hostility towards religion and belief can only be the product of a sick mentality.
Anyone with common sense should condemn and reject this abominable publication.– Ibrahim Kalin (@ ikalin1) October 27, 2020
The cartoon shows Erdogan with undershirt and boxer shorts, lifting a woman’s skirt that is covered with an Islamic habit.
“The anti-Muslim agenda of French President (Emmanuel) Macron is paying off! Charlie Hebdo has just published a series of so-called cartoons full of despicable images of our president, “Fahrettin Altun, the president’s communication director, said in a tweet last night.
“We condemn the such a disgusting effort by this post to spread its racism and cultural hatred“, Add.
The so-called cartoons are disgusting and lack any real sense of human decency. It is clearly the product of a xenophobic, Islamophobic and intolerant cultural environment that the French leadership seems to want for their country.
– Fahrettin Altun (@fahrettinaltun) October 27, 2020
More radical was the Vice Minister of Culture, Serdar Çam, in his tweet: “They are bastards. They are sons of bitches,” he wrote.
Diplomatic tensions between Ankara and Paris have escalated since attack on October 16 against the French history professor Samuel Paty, beheaded by a Chechen Islamist in the middle of the street in the town of Conflans Sainte Honorine (outskirts of Paris) ten days after having shown some cartoons of the prophet in a class on freedom of expression.
Those Cartoons published more than five years ago by Charlie Hebdo, the victim of an Islamist attack in 2015 in which 12 people died, have been defended by Paris by considering them legitimate as an expression.
Turkey has condemned the use of cartoons in protests in France over Paty’s murder and in defense of freedom of expression.
Erdogan has called for a boycott of French products in Turkey and yesterday, Tuesday, small protests against France took place in several cities of the country, called by a union close to the government.
Charlie Hebdo:@Charlie_Hebdo
You are bastards.
You are sons of bitches.– Dr. Serdar Çam (@serdar_cam) October 27, 2020
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