Topic: A German comedian could be sent to jail for insulting the Turkish president - page 10. (Read 7562 times)

So we are becoming humorless machines while we try to make machines more like humans?

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                  I love your avatar.

agree, but you know, some people will confused between the sense of humor and the disrespect and this is not the first time that this happen.

A good and intelligent man told me one time, the IA will come when machines are able to build a joke... we are going to the opposite...

Turkish president? lol He is not a president. He is a dictator. But dont worry, i think KGB will take care of him very soon.

This is simply stupid. They're claiming that USSR was a dictatorship, but even in the USSR everybody was able to say that Fidel Castro is an idiot, without getting imprisoned after that.

P.S. By the way, I'm agree that Erdogan is a goatfucker and braindead lunatic. He's also a corrupt, selfish and unbelievably stupid clown. He's not even a real man, but rather a transvestite.

P.P.S. Actually, I'd say that same applies to majority of european politicians. Just for example, there is no doubts that Merkel is also a braindead transvestite. Allowing the countless hordes of unwashed rapists to enter the country is even more than stupid.

I knew freedom of speech is very limited in Europe, but this is new for me. Jailing people for their opinion on foreign dictators, who came up with that?
Meanwhile everybody called Bush a monkey for years, nobody went to jail.

What a surprise, I see this bullshit once again. He also eats children btw.

Seriously, guys, you need to invent something new.

An average price of Litvinenko-poisoning dose on the US market is somewhat about $50. And still, these idiots are claiming that it was Putin. So logical, oh yeah.

The poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko with polonium has recently been exposed as a US intelligence plot to attack Putin's credibility given that Russia is the largest supplier of polonium. That being said, I am sure he has put his fair share of journalists under the dirt, as has Obama and many other past presidents. In the US they just take more time being sneaky about it.

I suppose it's better than what Putin would do... he simply murders his opposition... sometimes using radioactive isotopes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia

Yes, it's easier to insult Hitler than Erdogan in today's Germany, but don't worry, nothing will happen, and no one will be sent to jail. Erdogan's critic on press' freedom has brought major news coverage in Germany, with several members of the parliament defending free speech in Turkey, so it cannot get worse in Germany.

http://www.businessinsider.com/r-germany-says-press-freedom-non-negotiable-in-talks-with-turkey-2016-3?IR=T

There's not being able to take criticism, which can be understandable sometimes and then there's deliberately going out of your way to get somebody thrown into jail over it.

Only someone of an immature mental capacity cant take or accept the existence of criticism. Edrogan is a new Stalin and Hitler all rolled into one.

What a load of shit, this shouldn't even be an issue for fucks sake, especially in a supposedly democratic country, Germany should grow some balls and tell Turkey to fuck off, but I guess Europe likes the middle eastern oil too much that it will consider sacrificing one of it's own citizens to the madman that leads that country.

I am confused. For long, I was having a perception that Germany was a vassal state of the United States. However, for the past few years, it looks like Germany is becoming the vassal state of Turkey. Germany is about to grant € 20 billion in tax payer funds to Turkey, and Turkish citizens will be allowed to enter Germany without a Visa.

BTW.. what is wrong in calling Erdogan a goat-fucker? His love for goats (and camels) is well-known throughout the middle-east.

Some countries have really unbeliveable laws. What about a freedom of speech? At the end he's an artist

A German comedian could face prosecution in his own country for "insulting" Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Jan Böhmermann, a satirical comedian, is being investigated by German authorities under defamation laws for a poem in which he calls the Turkish premier a "goat f*****" and other insults.

He could face up to five years in prison if Turkey's foreign ministers, who were reportedly angered by the programme, decide to press charges and he is convicted, according to Der Tagesspiegel.

"Erdogan is definitely a president with a small tail," says the comedian, in a line where "tail" is understood in German to refer to another part of the male anatomy.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan's craziest quotes

The popular young comedian was reportedly trying to outdo the offensiveness of an earlier song insulting Erdogan, which Ankara officially complained about in March.

"What I'm about to read is not allowed. If it were to be read in public - that would be forbidden in Germany," said Mr Böhmermann before going on to read his "smear poem" on public broadcaster ZDF, according to The Local.

He also said Mr Erdogan "watches child porn while kicking Kurds", in reference to accusations against the Turkish president that he is persecuting the Kurdish minority in the country.

To avert diplomatic tensions, Angela Merkel personally called Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu and agreed the poem was a "deliberate insult".

She has recently helped broker a deal with Mr Erdogan that for every refugee returned from Greece back to Turkey, one will be admitted into the EU from Turkey's refugee camps.

ZDF removed the programme from its website.

Under paragraph 103 of the German Criminal Code, insulting a foreign head of state can result in a three-year jail term, while an intended slander can stretch to five years.

Such "insult laws" still exist in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Sweden, according to a report from Pen International, which campaigns on behalf of imprisoned writers.

Mr Erdogan said at the start of April that he welcomed criticism but would "file a lawsuit" against anyone who insulted him.


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/german-comedian-jan-b-hmermann-could-face-prison-for-insulting-smear-poem-against-turkish-president-a6972356.html



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I wonder if W Bush or TRUMP was ever insulted in this anti free speech country...