Turkish president wants German comedian prosecuted for satirical poem – and chancellor needs his support on refugeesFrom eurozone turmoil to refugee crisis via diplomatic tensions with Russia,Angela Merkel has in recent years managed to weather more than one global storm. Yet this week an obscure paragraph in the German penal code has landed the chancellor in such an awkward predicament that some judge it may lead to her eventual downfall.
Merkel is currently under pressure to give her verdict on whether Germany’s state prosecutor should start proceedings against the TV presenter Jan Böhmermann, after the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan requested the comedian be prosecuted for allegedly defaming him in a “smear poem”.
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Source: theguardian.com