On Wednesday, top Turkish officials condemned a caricature insulting President Tayyip Erdogan in the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, calling it a “disgusting effort” to “spread its cultural racism and hatred”.
They added that Turkey will take all legal and diplomatic steps needed in response to abusive caricature published by the French magazine.
State media later reported that Turkish prosecutors had launched an investigation into Charlie Hebdo's executives.
The cartoon on the cover of Charlie Hebdo showed Erdogan sitting in a white T-shirt and underpants and holding a canned drink, along with a woman wearing an Islamic hijab.
Notably, France recalled its ambassador from Turkey on Saturday after President Erdogan’s questioned the mental health of his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.
The French presidency reacted hours later with a statement that said, “Excess and rudeness are not a method” and “We are not accepting insults.”
“President Erdogan’s comments are unacceptable. Outrage and insult are not a method,” Macron’s office said in the statement. “We demand that Erdogan change the course of his policy because it is dangerous in every respect .”
Yesterday Erdogan denounced Macron over his policies toward France’s large Muslim minority, saying that he needed “mental checks.”
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