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Turkish prosecutor seeks jail terms for four Charlie Hebdo members

Publicado: 27/03/2021 : 01:36 | Actualizado: 31/07/2022 : 19:38 |

A Turkish prosecutor on Friday called for four members of Charlie Hebdo magazine to be sentenced to up to four years in prison. The reason is a cartoon depicting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that once triggered a diplomatic conflict. The cartoon in question was published in October 2020 on the cover of the satirical weekly

Erdogan, in the shadow of his caricature

Publicado: 29/10/2020 : 14:31 | Actualizado: 31/07/2022 : 19:38 |

Erdogan, in the shadow of his caricature "Charlie Hebdo: You are bastards. You are sons of bitches. This is how he addressed Serdar ÇamTurkey's deputy minister of culture and tourism, to the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo at Twitter, The story is just another chapter in the perennial case known as the "Mohammed cartoons" which,

The Erdogan dictatorship

Publicado: 02/12/2016 : 22:39 | Actualizado: 31/07/2022 : 19:40 |

Although it is not a topic that is high on the media's "news" agenda here, the Erdogan government's machinery of repression is still in full swing in Turkey. During the so-called "great purge" at least 130 journalists have been arrested and some 150 media outlets have been closed down in recent months. Today marks 30