Bowing to Sultan: Erdogan Imposing His Will, Values on ‘Pliable Europe’
SputnikNews.com
21.04.2016
The Bohmermann case has put the spotlight on German Chancellor Merkel’s apparent ‘betrayal of the very liberal values she claims to champion,’ Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bret Stephens writes, asking to what extent Merkel is ready to risk German citizens’ right to freedom of speech.
The case of Jan Bohmermann, a 35 year-old German political satirist who recited a lewd poem about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his show, is not about Bohmermann’s offensive remarks or the Turkish leader’s response, but about German Chancellor Angela Merkel who appears to be bending under the pressure from Ankara.
“How does European humanitarianism become a road to moral surrender?” Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bret Stephens writes in his article for The Wall Street Journal.
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