On Sunday, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu marched with other world leaders in Paris to show solidarity with the victims of the terrorist attack on the French satirical publication Charlie Hebdo.
And today, Turkish police forced raided the offices of the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet to make sure that the Charlie Hebdo cartoons they published in today’s paper didn’t include ones of Muhammad:
Turkish paper published some #CharlieHebdo cartoons in solidarity (none of Muhammad) raided by police http://t.co/xIntEFysBY (@SedefCastell)
— Ex-Muslims Forum (@CEMB_forum) January 14, 2015
https://twitter.com/BklynMiddleton/status/555303315786199040
Turkey police stop trucks leaving printing center to check newspaper for #CharlieHebdo cartoon http://t.co/d524mbYycI pic.twitter.com/2atd6FGMIR
— Andrew Stroehlein (@astroehlein) January 14, 2015
Police in Turkey have raided daily publishing Charlie Hebdo, & halted trucks to prevent the distribution the magazine pic.twitter.com/LKtxFLOd5v
— News_Executive (@News_Executive) January 14, 2015
Maybe Davutoglu wasn’t paying attention at the march?
In other news, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Turkey’s state-run media outlet have their own theories of who really is behind the attack in Paris:
https://twitter.com/Bridget_PJM/status/555350197308755968
Remember when the White House used to boast about Obama’s close relationship with this guy? http://t.co/IXJTULTLGI
— Eli Lake (@EliLake) January 14, 2015
https://twitter.com/peterstanners/status/555346894705422337
Member of NATO, folks: http://t.co/hgcerNkrUV pic.twitter.com/gk4ErfWK5Q
— The Nats Won The World Series (@EsotericCD) January 14, 2015
We really need to address this whole Turkey-as-a-member-of-NATO business — and soon.
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Twitchy coverage of Charlie Hebdo