"Turkish fury as Erdogan, champion of free speech, sues over cartoon
By Susan Frazer in Ankara
03 March 2005
Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has presented himself in the past as a champion of free speech, is facing an embarrassing storm of criticism for suing a political cartoonist who poked fun at him.
Mr Erdogan, once imprisoned for reciting a poem that was deemed to be anti-state, took Musa Kart and his newspaper, Cumhuriyet, to court after he was portrayed as a cat entangled in a ball of wool."
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