Erdogan in underwear on Charlie Hebdo, the rage of the Turkish president: “Immoral scoundrels”

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has made the Muslim religion an instrument of nationalist vindication, appears in his underwear, with a can in his hand and the other trying to lift a woman’s tunic up to his back, screaming “Ouuuh! Prophet.” Commenting on the scene, the words “Erdogan in private is very nice.” It’s the cartoon from the last cover of Charlie hebdo, the French satirical magazine hit by a terrorist attack in 2015. A cartoon that has further raised the spirits between Ankara and Paris, after the tensions of recent days between Erdogan himself and the head of the Elysee Emmanuel Macron.

Erdogan: in the private sector, it’s a lot of fun!

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– Charlie Hebdo (@Charlie_Hebdo_) October 27, 2020

The cartoon has already had legal implications: it appears that the Ankara prosecutor has opened an investigation against the weekly. While the Turkish president has described the cartoons as “immoral” and “scoundrels” whom, in his opinion, they offend. Muhammad: “We are going through a period in which Islam, Islamophobia and disrespect for the Prophet have spread like a cancer, especially among the rulers of Europe. I have heard that the magazine, which publishes ugly and immoral cartoons in France , he points a comic at me. I have not looked at the comic because I consider him cruel also because of his reputation, “Erdogan said in a speech on television.” I don’t need to say anything about the scoundrels who insulted my beloved prophet. We know that the target It is not us personally, but our values ​​that we defend. My anger is that the magazine is a lack of respect for ours. Prophet, “he added.

The publication of the cartoon about Erdogan is part of the climate of open confrontation between the Turkish president and Macron precisely on the issue of secularism and freedom of expression, which erupted after the murder of Samuel Paty, the professor beheaded in the streets of the suburbs of Paris by the 18-year-old Chechen extremist Abdullah Anzorov appears to be a punishment: the man, in fact, had shown in class the cartoons about Muhammad by Charlie Hebdo that had already led to 2015 to the terrorist attack against the writing of the satirical weekly. “We never go back, never. We respect all differences in a spirit of peace. We do not accept hate speech and advocate reasonable debate. We will always stand on the side of human dignity and universal values,” the leader wrote in Arabic. from the Elysee on social media after the professor’s murder. Words to which Erdogan responded stating that Macron “needs treatment for his mental health” and inviting Muslims from all over the world to a boycott campaign against French products.