"Wanted: A premier with sense of humor and some tolerance!
Thursday, March 24, 2005
TDN editorial by Yusuf KANLI
Yusuf KANLI
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan -- who in the past portrayed himself as a champion of free speech -- has just sued yet another political cartoonist who poked fun at him. Erdogan has opened a new front in his war on his critics and ordered his lawyers to file a libel case against Erdil Yasaroglu and Pak Publishing, owner and publisher of Penguen cartoon magazine, on grounds that he was humiliated by a Feb. 24, 2005 magazine cover, a potpourri of drawings by eight cartoonists of Erdogan's head attached to a variety of animal bodies."
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