Episode 818 • • 2:02:36 - 2:07:32
818: Document 17
Angela Merkel, Jan Böhmermann and Turkish Defamation Law
German Chancellor Angela Merkel approves a criminal inquiry into satirist Jan Böhmermann for reciting an offensive poem about Turkish President Erdogan. The prosecution invokes an obscure 1871 law criminalizing the insulting of foreign leaders, sparking a debate over free speech in Germany.