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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned the Charge D’affaires of France over the satirical magazine’s cartoon of Erdoğan, expressing Turkey’s expectation from the country “to take action against drawings exceeding limits of freedom of expression.”

Vice President Oktay and Communications Director Altun have slammed Charlie Hebdo magazine over a recent cartoon about President Erdoğan. Vice Minister of Culture Çam has also responded on Twitter with French swearwords.

Organized in Russia’s capital city of Moscow for the last 25 years to commemorate the late poet, Nazım Hikmet events have started with the opening of Caricatures of Nazım Hikmet exhibition in the 56th year of poet's death.

Directors of Cyprus-based Afrika newspaper Şener Levent and Ali Osman Tabak have been acquitted in the lawsuit filed against them for allegedly insulting President Erdoğan with a caricature published on the newspaper on December 8, 2017.

President Erdoğan has demanded that Carlos Latuff’s caricatures be blocked.

Kadesh 2016 International Caricature Exhibition, which has been named after the Kadesh treaty that is the first written treaty of the human history, takes start with “Middle East and Peace” theme in İstanbul on January 7.

Censorship of humour was the topic of the panel discussion entitled "Press Freedom in the Light of Humour and Comics" organized by the Turkish Journalists Association and the Association of Caricaturists. Caricatures have been censored since the Ottoman Empire.

Güney magazine official Özer is facing imprisonment of up to 7.5 years for depicting memories of a PKK member and because of a caricature. After the first hearing on 7 October, the trial was postponed to 17 February 2011 for the prosecutor's final speech.