Posted on 04/04/2006 12:34:33 AM PDT by Wiz
Istanbul, 3 April (AKI) - A row between Turkey's cartoonists and the prime minister Recep Tayyip was reignited after a lawyer representing the Turkish leader on Monday appealed against a February ruling that dismissed the premier's complaint against a magazine which had published satirical drawings of him. Early last year, Turkish magazine Penguen, published a set of sketches featured the prime minister's face on the bodies of various animals. The cartoons were published to protest against the successful suing by Erdogan of Musa Kart, a cartoonist working on the newspaper Cumhuriyet.
An Ankara court ordered Kart to pay a 5,000 New Turkish lira (3,700 US dollars) fine after it found him guilty of insulting the premier in a cartoon featuring Erdogan as a cat entangled in a ball of wool. The cartoon was poking fun at Erdogan's after he vetoed a bill lifting the headscarf ban in universities - a move that stirred dissent within Erdogan's own Islam-based party.
But on 24 February 2005 issue, Penguen undaunted by the fine against Kart, published a cover story depciting Erdogan’s face as various animals including a frog, monkey, duck and camel with the headline: "Tayyip's World".
Erdogan swiftly denounced the cartoons.
"Freedom of thought, freedom of the press never amount to freedom of insult; they should not," Erdogan said. "If you caricature the prime minister of this country, or anyone else, as an animal, this can never be called freedom."
But the court ruled that drawings showing Turkey's premier's head attached to the bodies of animals did not violate the leader's rights, rejecting his demand for compensation.
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This guy is a crybaby.
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