State media also reported that Turkish prosecutors had launched an investigation into Charlie Hebdo executives. Turkey said Wednesday that it will take legal and diplomatic measures in response to a cartoon of President Tayyip Erdogan in the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, which officials called a “disgusting effort” to “spread …
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French police raided Islamic associations and foreigners suspected of extremist religious beliefs on Monday, police sources said, three days after a suspected Islamist beheaded a school teacher. History teacher Samuel Paty, 47, was murdered in broad daylight on Friday in front of his school in a middle-class suburb of Paris …
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The high school teacher stabbed to death on the street in a Paris suburb on Friday showed his teenage students a cartoon satirizing the Prophet Muhammad as part of a class on free speech earlier this month, the parents said. Nordine Chaouadi told Reuters that he was the father of …
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Emmanuel Macron said it was up to French citizens to show mutual respect (Archive) Beirut: French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that it was not his place to judge the decision of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo to republish the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, saying that France has freedom …
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