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Charlie Hebdo, a French magazine, had previously published derogatory cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed which sparked attacks and massacres at his editorial office in 2015.
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 from France.
French president Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to the teacher and said France would “not give up our cartoons.” The president vowed that France would stick to its secular traditions and laws that guarantee the freedom of speech that make possible such publications by Charlie Hebdo. Macron’s defence of Charlie Hebdo, and his recent comments that Islam around the world is “in crisis”, have been used in an anti-France campaign by Erdogan.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has mobilised all his extremist forces against Macron in an attempt to start a wave of anti-France protests. The hostility between the two presidents came after an anti-Turkey alliance was formed among Arab countries who recognised Erdogan’s plot to occupy Arab countries and re-establish the Ottoman Empire. French president Emmanuel Macron has been vocal about Erdogan’s expansionist dreams and his support of extremist terrorist organizations such as ISIS, and has called for Turkey to be removed from NATO countless times.
Charlie Hebdo has responded by also releasing a cover of Erdogan himself.
ERDOGAN COVER
The front page caricature of 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 body.
“Ooh, prophet!“the cartoon character sounds in a speech balloon, while the title reads; ”Erdogan: in private, he is very funny“.
The Erdogan regime who sponsored ISIS while the organization sold hundreds of Kurdish women as sex slaves, labelled the caricature as animosity. Erdogan loyalists highlighted that alcohol is forbidden in Islam.
