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Turkish Officials Lash Out at Cartoon Depicting Erdogan

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   Turkish officials have lashed out at the French satirical magazine
   Charlie Hebdo, which published a cartoon mocking Turkish President
   Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

   The cartoon shows Erdogan, apparently in his underwear, holding a drink
   and lifting the skirt of a woman wearing Islamic garb.

   "We strongly condemn the publication concerning our president of the
   French magazine, which has no respect to faith, the sacred and values,"
   Erdogan's spokesman, Ibrahim Kalin, tweeted.

   Tensions between the two NATO allies have risen in recent months as
   Macron vowed to defend secularism in the wake of the public beheading
   of a French teacher earlier this month by a Muslim militant.

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