Charlie Hendo caricature fans Turkey-France feud

Turkey assailed French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for mocking President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with a front-page caricature as frictions with France intensified. The Turkish leader’s spokesman accused French President Emmanuel Macron of encouraging such an insult with a hostile stance toward Islam. And the prosecutor’s office in the capital, Ankara, opened an investigation against themagazine following the publication of the contentious cartoon in its Wednesday edition. Erdogan on Wednesday said he didn’t look at the caricature to avoid lending legitimacy to “such immoral publications.” He didn’t address the lampoon of himself but called the cartoon, which included a reference to the prophet Muhammad, “a grave insult to my prophet.”