Lawyer to file complaint in German probe over Erdogan poem
BERLIN — A lawyer for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday he will challenge a decision by German prosecutors to drop an investigation of a TV comic who wrote a crude poem about the president.
Erdogan’s lawyer, Michael-Hubertus von Sprenger, told The Associated Press that he would file a complaint objecting to the decision on the president’s behalf, but he didn’t say when it would be filed.
Comic Jan Boehmermann’s ditty described the Turkish leader as “stupid, cowardly and uptight” and contained crude sexual references.
Prosecutors dropped their investigation of Boehmermann on Tuesday, citing insufficient evidence that he committed a crime.