Turkey summons German envoy over ‘Erdogan as dog’ cartoon in textbook
6 Nov 2014 5:14 AM IST
The Turkish foreign ministry on Monday summoned the German ambassador to protest at the appearance in a German school textbook of a caricature of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as a dog.German ambassador Eberhard Pohl was called over the cartoon which appeared in a school textbook in the southern state of Baden Wuerttemberg.
According the reports, the cartoon had been taken from a 2011 article in the Sunday edition of the Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper which showed Erdogan as a guard dog with teeth bared coming out of a kennel marked ‘Erdogan’. The cartoon, which had the sarcastic title ‘Turks in Germany -- a success story’, was used in a high school textbook for social studies. ‘We strongly condemn the appearance in a school textbook of a cartoon insulting our president and all Turks living in Germany,’ a statement said.
According the reports, the cartoon had been taken from a 2011 article in the Sunday edition of the Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper which showed Erdogan as a guard dog with teeth bared coming out of a kennel marked ‘Erdogan’. The cartoon, which had the sarcastic title ‘Turks in Germany -- a success story’, was used in a high school textbook for social studies. ‘We strongly condemn the appearance in a school textbook of a cartoon insulting our president and all Turks living in Germany,’ a statement said.
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