Caricatures of Erdogan flood Twitter - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Pinar Tremblay

Pinar Tremblay

Nov 4, 2014

Kart 2.jpg — A cartoon by Musa Kart shows then-Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as a cat tangled in strings symbolizing religious schools in Turkey. The text reads, “No need for tension . . . We promised, we will untangle this mess." The cartoon sparked a lawsuit after its publication by Cumhuriyet Daily on May 9, 2004. — Musa Kart

Jan Boehmermann, host of the late-night "Neo Magazin Royale" on the public ZDF channel is pictured during a TV show of Markus Lanz in Hamburg, Germany, August 21, 2012. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has filed a complaint against a comedian who recited a satirical and sexually crude poem about him on German television, complicating Berlin's attempts to get Turkey's help in dealing with Europe's migrant crisis. Picture taken August 21, 2012. REUTERS/Morris Mac Matzen - RTX29LPX

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An employee of the Council of Europe holds a placard which read "I am Charlie" and a pen, during a minute of silence in front of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg January 9, 2015, two days after gunmen stormed weekly satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. The two main suspects in the weekly satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo killings were sighted on Friday in the northern French town of Dammartin-en-Goele where at least one person had been taken hostage, a police source said. REUTERS/Vincent Kessle

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Demonstrators stand around a copy of the daily Cumhuriyet newspaper during a rally in the Silivri district of Istanbul on September 11, 2017.
The controversial trial of staff from Turkey's main opposition daily resumes on September 11, 2017 in a case seen as a test for press freedom under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. / AFP PHOTO / OZAN KOSE (Photo credit should read OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images)

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