France's Le Point magazine being harassed by Erdogan

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The magazine had written in its edition, with the portrait of Erdogan "the dictator" and "Where can Erdogan get?”

The magazine said in an article on its website "After a week of harassment, insults, intimidation, anti-Semitic insults and threats on social networking sites, Turkish Justice and Development Party (AKP) are attacking symbols of freedom of expression and pluralism of the press."

Xiavier Magnun, the administrator of the office of Right-wing National Front’s mayor Boris Abrar said "supporters of Erdogan threatened the owner of a stall to intimidate him and force him to withdraw a propaganda photograph of the cover of the magazine."

After the propaganda was removed from the stall, the municipality asked the company to return it. This is what happened, and then about 20 people from Erdogan's supporters gathered, prompting the police to send a patrol to the site for security.

The the editorial of the issue of the magazine last Thursday included an article by the former director of the newspaper, Franz-Olivier Gisbert, entitled "Erdogan, is he a new Hitler?", The writer addressed the similarities between Erdogan and Hitler."

The former director of the newspaper that Recep Tayyip Erdogan describes the Kurds in Syria as terrorists, and continues to treat the Kurds in Turkey as the lowest degree of human and they are being killed by the Turkish police.

It also addressed another article entitled "Afrin, the martyr village," it talked about Afrin which was exposed to the Turkish aggression.

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ANHA