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Erdogan and Macron disagreed on a number of issues.
Turkey threatened legal and diplomatic action against France after the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published a cartoon mocking Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Officials described the cartoon as “disgusting and seeks to spread a culture of racism and hatred.”
The drawing shows Erdogan in his underwear, lying on a chair, lifting the dress of a veiled woman from behind.
Turkish anger over cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad increased the intensity of the dispute between Turkey and France, and after a French teacher showed his students these drawings, in a lesson on freedom of expression in France this month, that led to his beheading.
Macron vowed to defend secularism after the teacher was killed. The government argued that state secularism was central to France’s national identity and that restricting freedom of expression to protect the sentiments of a particular sect undermined unity.
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What did Erdogan say?
The Turkish president said he had “no need to comment” on the cartoon Charlie Hebdo had posted on its cover, adding that “he had not seen it.”
He added: “I heard that the magazine, which published ugly and crude cartoons of our Prophet, is now pointing a cartoon at me on the cover. It is not necessary to give credit to such immoral publications.”
Erdogan spoke at a meeting with the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) parliamentary group.
The Charlie Hebdo cartoon comes amid anger in Turkey over the French president’s statements on Islam, when Erdogan called for a boycott of French products.
Erdogan criticized Macron over the weekend, prompting France to call its Ankara ambassador for consultations.
What did Turkey say?
Vice President Fuad Aktay called on the international community to speak out against “this shame”.
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A painting against Macron in Gaza.
“You can’t fool anyone by hiding behind freedom of thought,” he said on Twitter.
Turkey’s Communications Directorate said the country “will take the necessary legal and diplomatic measures against the cartoon,” adding in a statement that “our battle against these rude and ill-intentioned people will continue to the end, but rightly so.”
Justice Minister Abdul Hamid Gul told reporters in Ankara that the Turkish authorities had taken all necessary initiatives with the relevant authorities.
And state media reported that Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation.
Senior Turkish officials condemned the cartoon, and presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said the drawing does not respect “any belief, sanctity or value” and that it cannot be an expression of freedom of expression.
“Macron’s anti-Muslim agenda is bearing fruit. We condemn this disgusting act,” Fakhreddin Altun, Turkey’s director of presidential communications, said, according to the Reuters news agency.
In response to the Charlie Hebdo cartoons, the Turkish ruling satirical magazine Miswak published a series of cartoons criticizing Macron and Charlie Hebdo on its Twitter page.
Turkey was unsuccessful in an earlier attempt four years ago to sue a German television host who read a poem mocking Erdogan.
This is not the first time Charlie Hebdo has caused controversy.
In 2015, 12 people were killed in an attack on the magazine’s Paris offices. He was targeted by Islamist militants for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
In the same year, the magazine was severely criticized by Russia for two cartoons showing a plane crash in Sinai, which killed 224 people, most of them Russian.
And in 2016, a cartoon infuriated Italians, after it depicted the victims of the Italian earthquake as spaghetti.
