Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has filed a criminal complaint against the comedian Jan Böhmermann for libel. A letter had been received, the Mainz prosecutor said on Monday evening. Subject of questions by a law firm request was the abusive poem in the program “ZDF Neo Royal” of 31 March. The 35-year-old had in his poem used deliberately offensive formulations – as he explained -. To make the differences between permitted in Germany satire and prohibited insulting criticism clearly
A criminal complaint will in the already pending for attack against institutions and representatives of foreign countries (§103 Penal Code) are checked, the report said. Turkey demanded that the satirist Jan Böhmermann will be prosecuted. A corresponding diplomatic note had been sent to the German authorities, a spokesman for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday in Ankara. Erdogan’s complaint after §194 Penal Code for insulting refers to §194 penal code.
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The federal government is now considering Turkey’s formal request for prosecution. This will take a few days but not weeks, government spokesman Steffen Seibert. Earlier, the Chief senior public prosecutor Andrea Keller had told that her agency had not been informed of the request for prosecution of Turkey. For a prosecution in such cases, it need in addition to the request for prosecution of Turkey, a corresponding authorization on the part of the federal government.
The poem is not only an insult to Erdogan, but from all 78 million Turks, said Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş on Monday. He threw Böhmermann prior to committing to the poem a “serious crime against humanity”. The text had “exceeded all limits of shamelessness”. The government in Ankara can not accept that.
Seibert stressed the freedom of art and freedom of the press were for Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) neither in nor negotiable outwards. This applies regardless of whether they think something tasteless and that the EU together working with Turkey in the refugee crisis.
ZDF stands behind Böhmermann
The ZDF wants at its Moderator hold in spite of anger. Meanwhile “Neo Magazine Royale” is not a matter under discussion, said the station. “The mission will continue as before.” Böhmermann himself, who on Friday night for an earlier satirical action ( “Varoufake”) received the coveted Grimme Award in the absence, holding out for days from the public debate.
the chairman of the Turkish community in Germany, Gökay Sofuoglu, holds a charge is not necessary. Böhmermann and ZDF should but to apologize, he said. “I think it’s not satirical, but misplaced and insulting,” said Sofuoglu.
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In public Böhmermann has recently experienced prominent consent: “I find your poem succeeded. I laughed out loud, “wrote Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner in an open letter to Böhmermann in the” Welt am Sonntag “. “That your poem was tasteless, crude and offensive, was yes – if I have understood correctly – the whole point,” says Döpfner. “I would like, Mr. Böhmermann precaution connect its formulations and abuse content fully and make his own me in any legal form.”
In solidarity with Böhmermann cabaret artist Dieter Hallervorden mocked (80) the Turkish President in a song: in “Erdogan, shew me,” the published Hallervorden late on Sunday on his Facebook page, states in part: “I sing just what you are. . A terrorist who shits on free spirit “
responses from the policy
Niels Annen, foreign policy spokesman of the SPD parliamentary group, told the daily newspaper” Die Welt “:” I expect that the federal government takes a legally compliant way, the request of the Turkish government to reject a prosecution “Omid Nouripour, foreign policy spokesman of the parliamentary group of the Greens, added:”. the federal government should leave the case of the German judiciary comments and therefore Erdogan with another principle of democratic make States familiar – the separation of powers “
CDU general secretary Peter Tauber said on n-tv:” in Germany we have a very good tradition, what criticism, satirical criticism of the policies on the basis of the free. expression concerns. “However, one must keep in a state of law to all rules. “And there is a rule that the insulting foreign heads of state is punishable by law.”
Sahra Wagenknecht, Chairman of the Group of the Left, demanded Chancellor Merkel must stand protectively in front of the press, expression and artistic freedom in Germany and Ankara issue a denial.
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