Turkish President Erdoğan tries to violate media freedom in Germany
by Michelle Trimborn
With his latest move, it seems Turkish President Erdoğan has shot himself in the foot: when German political satire programme "extra 3" criticised his restrictions on media freedom in a video, he summoned the German ambassador – and allegedly asked to stop the publication of the audiovisual material.
Turkish President Erdoğan turned the broadcast of a satirical video of him by a German station into a diplomatic matter; the move backfired. (Photo: Pixabay)
Extra 3, a weekly programme on German public broadcaster NDR, is using its satirical approach to criticise world politics. Usually smiled at by politicians and authorities, the…