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Fehim Tastekin

Apr 18, 2016

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 — Jan Boehmermann, host of the late-night "Neo Magazin Royale," is pictured during a TV show of Markus Lanz in Hamburg, Aug. 21, 2012. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has filed a complaint against the comedian, who recited a satirical and sexually crude poem about him on German television. — REUTERS/Morris Mac Matzen

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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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In Izmir, reporting on culture

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