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Turkey: Erdogan Fueling Hostility Against the West
On September 13, a group of Islamists in Istanbul's Beyazit Square protested against French President Emmanuel Macron
They held placards warning that Macron and the satirical French magazine, Charlie Hebdo, “will pay a heavy price.”
- Uzay Bulut
- Gatestone Institute
The protesters were condemning Macron for his stance supporting Charlie Hebdo’s decision to republish cartoons of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed and France’s commitment to freedom of…
Charlie Hebdo, along with a kosher supermarket in Paris, were the targets of a massacre by Islamist gunmen in January 2015.
The magazine recently reprinted the images to mark the…