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In a context of tension between the two countries, the French satirical weekly depicted Erdogan in his underpants, with a beer in hand, lifting the dress of a veiled woman yelling: “Ouuuuh! The prophet! ”, As can be seen in this trill:
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– Charlie Hebdo (@Charlie_Hebdo_) October 27, 2020
This drawing aroused the ire of Ankara, which opened an investigation for “insult to the head of state” and promised “diplomatic action”, without giving any details.
In a tweet posted Tuesday night, Turkish Deputy Minister of Culture Serdam Can wrote in French: “@Charlie_Hebdo_ They’re bastards. They are sons of bitches… ”.
The inter-ministerial delegate for the fight against racism in France announced on Wednesday to the AFP agency that he had appealed to justice regarding said tweet, which was “withdrawn in France due to local laws,” according to Twitter.
Erdogan has multiplied the attacks against his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in recent days, accusing him of “Islamophobia” for defending the right to caricature the prophet Muhammad in a tribute to a French professor who was beheaded for showing some of these drawings in a class on civic instruction. .
Claiming that he had not seen the latest Charlie Hebdo cartoons about him, Erdogan expressed his “anger” due not to “the infamous attack on me, but the insults against the prophet” Muhammad.
“We know that the objective is not my person, but our values”, continued the Turkish president, whose spokesman had previously denounced “cultural racism”.
France rejects destabilizing attempt
Despite “attempts at destabilization and intimidation,” France will never “renounce its principles and values,” French government spokesman Gabriel Attal commented on Wednesday, underlining “European unity” around Paris.
Relations between Turkey and France have progressively deteriorated since last year due, in particular, to to disagreements over Syria, Libya and the eastern Mediterranean.
Tensions escalated last week when Erdogan, accusing Macron of carrying out a “hate campaign” against Islam, called into question his “state of mind.”
The Turkish head of state, who wants to present himself as a defender of Islam to polish his image in his electoral base and in the region, urged on Monday a boycott of French products, but his call appears to have been relatively little followed.
Despite mounting tensions, the head of Turkish diplomacy, Mevlüt Cavusoglu, said on Wednesday that Ankara had no plans “for the moment” to withdraw its ambassador from Paris, after France returned its representative in Turkey on Saturday. .
In the midst of a war of words, the French government spokesman wanted to “remind us very clearly that hateful statements against journalists and against a newsroom are those that provoked attacks, dramas, massacres (…) in our country.”
Charlie Hebdo was the victim in 2015 of a jihadist attack that left several dead, after publishing cartoons of the prophet Muhammad.
The duel between Ankara and Paris is part of a larger context of anger in the Muslim world towards France in relation to the defense of the Muhammad cartoons, whose representation is taboo in Islam.
Macron’s support for these cartoons, in the name of secularism and freedom of expression, is perceived by many Muslims as taking a hostile position towards Islam.
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