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Erdogan supporters force removal of French weekly from newsstands over ‘Dictator’ cover
Stupid brownshirts can be trusted to always act in the same bullying way.
[PRESSTV] Supporters of the The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
’s President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
 have purportedly made it a tough week for the French magazine Le Point by forcefully removing the advertisements for the weekly from newsstands in La Belle France over a controversial cover that described the Ottoman Turkish leader as a "Dictator."

The weekly wrote on its website on Monday that it had suffered harassment and intimidation by purported supporters of Erdogan, who had been depicted as a "Dictator" on its cover of Thursday’s issue.

"After a week of harassment, insults, intimidation and anti-Semitic slurs and threats towards us on social media, now has come the moment when supporters of the AKP [Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party] are attacking symbols of freedom of expression and diversity in the press," Le Point said.

Over the weekend, police were deployed in the Pontet, the most populous suburb of the southern city of Avignon, after a group of alleged pro-Erdogan activists attempted to either remove or cover up advertisements for the left-leaning magazine at newsstands. Videos of the incident were widely circulated on social media on Friday evening and into Saturday.

Separately, another poster of Le Point cover was lashed out at another newspaper kiosk in the southeastern town of valence on Sunday.

In its latest edition, the French weekly published an investigation into the Ottoman Turkish leader, wondering in an editorial, "Is Erdogan a new Hitler?"

Ottoman Turkish presidential front man Ibrahim Kalin reacted to the cover in a tweet, saying, "We know the attacks. We know what their purpose is. People and the oppressed people see what's happening."

He also said that "The days of Turkey receiving orders from the West are over. You cannot bring these days back by saying 'Dictator'."

Le Point’s controversial issue comes ahead of the presidential election in Turkey, set for June 24, with the Ottoman Turkish president running for a second term.

Erdogan announced snap elections on April 18, saying holding the votes more than a year earlier than planned was needed to enable his party to make the constitutional changes narrowly approved in a last year referendum, which will give him sweeping new powers.
Posted by: Fred 2018-05-29
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