Turkish leader files complaint against German comedian over TV poem

  12 April 2016    Read: 961
Turkish leader files complaint against German comedian over TV poem
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has filed a complaint against a comedian who recited a satirical poem about him on German national television, German prosecutors said in a statement.
The public prosecutor`s office in the western city of Mainz said Erdogan had filed the complaint against Jan Boehmermann via a law firm for insulting him. Boehmermann is the host of the late-night "Neo Magazin Royale" on the public ZDF channel.

In a program broadcast on March 31, Boehmermann had recited a poem about Erdogan that contained crude sexual references and accusations

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