Turkey's deputy culture minister calls Charlie Hebdo 'bastards, sons of bitches' after Erdoğan cartoon

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Turkish Deputy Culture Minister Serdar Çam has called French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo "bastards" and "sons of bitches" after it published a cartoon of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

"Charlie Hebdo: You are bastards. You are sons of bitches," Çam tweeted on Oct. 27.

Charlie Hebdo:@Charlie_Hebdo_

Vous êtes des bâtards..
Vous êtes des fils des chiennes..

— Dr. Serdar Çam (@serdar_cam) October 27, 2020

The cartoon on the cover of Charlie Hebdo, showed Erdoğan sitting in a white T-shirt and underpants, holding a canned drink along with a woman wearing an Islamic hijab.

“Oh, the prophet!” the cartoon Erdoğan exclaims. Charlie Hebdo captioned the caricature: “Erdoğan: In private, he’s very funny.”

Erdogan : dans le privé, il est très drôle !

Retrouvez :

? Laïcité : zoom sur le CCIF par @LaureDaussy
? Voyage dans la crackosphère parisienne par @AntonioFischet8 et Foolz
? Reportage à Lunéville et son théâtre par Juin

➡ Disponible demain ! pic.twitter.com/jxXqKrvXbK

— Charlie Hebdo (@Charlie_Hebdo_) October 27, 2020

Turkish anger at the caricature added fuel to a row between Turkey and France about cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, which flared after a teacher who had shown pupils the cartoons in a lesson on freedom of speech was beheaded in France this month.

Erdoğan sharply criticised Macron at the weekend, saying the French leader needed a mental health check, prompting France to recall its ambassador from Ankara. On Oct. 26, Erdoğan urged a boycott of French products.

Turkish gov't in fury over Charlie Hebdo's Erdoğan cartoon