The Ankara prosecutor’s office has demanded that four employees of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo be sentenced to prison terms of 1 to 4 years in connection with the insult of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.
According to DHA, the Turkish capital’s prosecutor’s office issued an indictment, according to which four employees of Charlie Hebdo, including the editor-in-chief of the magazine Gerard Bjar, were found guilty of insulting Erdogan. They are responsible, according to the investigation, for the publication of a caricature of the Turkish president, which is “rude, obscene, offensive and humiliating.”
Requests were sent to French law enforcement officers to obtain evidence from the accused.
Recall that Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan filed a lawsuit against Charlie Hebdo in October 2020 for a cartoon that was published on the cover of the magazine amid the crisis in relations between Paris and Ankara. On it, the Turkish president was depicted half-dressed, sitting in an armchair with a soft drink, with his other hand he raised the hem of a maid’s dress.