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A satirical and controversial poem

April 28, 2016

The German government has given Turkey the go-ahead for its lawsuit against Jan Böhmermann. The satirist had recited a poem about Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on TV. Now it's up to a German court to decide if he’s guilty of defamation.

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