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It was the magazine that had previously published derogatory cartoons Nabi Muhammad, which sparked attacks and massacres at his editorial office in 2015. (Read: This is a list of French products that the Muslim world could boycott)
The cartoon of the prophet is also shown by the teacher to his students in a discussion on freedom of expression in a class at a school on the outskirts of Paris. The teacher named Samuel Paty was finally killed by beheading on 16 October by Chechen teenagers who fled in France.
Front page caricature Charlie Hebdo Wednesday’s edition was released online on Tuesday night. The caricature or cartoon shows Erdogan in a T-shirt and underwear, drinking a can of beer and lifting the skirt of a woman wearing a headscarf to reveal her naked butt. (Read: The product was boycotted in Arabic, the French ambassador said that France was a Muslim country)
“Ooh, prophet!“the cartoon character sounds in a speech balloon, while the title reads;”Erdogan: personally, he is very funny“.
Intervention Charlie Hebdo occurred during the escalating war of words between Erdogan, French President Emmanuel Macron and other European leaders after the beheading of history teacher Samuel Paty.
Macron vowed that France would stick to its secular traditions and laws that guarantee the freedom of speech that such publications make possible Charlie Hebdo who is very anti-religious for producing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. (Also read: The impact of the Prophet Muhammad’s cartoon, Erdogan asks the Turkish people to boycott French products)
Macron’s defense against Charlie Hebdo, and his recent comments that Islam around the world is “in crisis”, have prompted Erdogan to urge Turkey to boycott French products amid waves of anti-French protests in Muslim-majority countries.
Earlier on Tuesday, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte defended his country’s right-wing politician, Geert Wilders, after Erdogan took legal action against him.
Wilders has shared a cartoon on Twitter depicting the Turkish president wearing an Ottoman hat shaped like a bomb with a flaming wick.
“I have a message for President Erdogan and the message is simple: In the Netherlands, freedom of expression is one of our highest values,” said Rutte.
Earlier, European leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended Macron after Erdogan suggested he needed a “mental check”.
“Those are completely unacceptable slanderous comments, especially against the backdrop of the gruesome murder of French teacher Samuel Paty by an Islamic fanatic,” said German Chancellor Angela Merkel spokesman Steffen Seibert, as quoted as saying France24, Wednesday (28/10/2020).
Erdogan has a track record of using legal action against critics in Europe.
He filed a lawsuit in 2016 against the German television comic; Jan Boehmermann, who recited a deliberately defamatory poem about the Turkish leader during his performance as part of a play designed to depict the limits of free speech.
The dispute put Merkel in an awkward position to sign off on criminal proceedings against comics under an ancient lese-majeste law that was later repealed from Germany’s legal code.
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