Because of a cartoon by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan published last October, four collaborators of the French satirical weekly "Charlie Hebdo" are being prosecuted by the Turkish courts.

A prosecutor in his country called on Friday for up to four years in prison for the four journalists.

A Turkish prosecutor on Friday called for up to four years in prison against four collaborators of the French satirical weekly

Charlie Hebdo

whom he accuses of having "insulted" President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a cartoon published last year, according to the state-run Anadolu news agency.

The publication of this cartoon, in October, had aroused the anger of Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a context of sharp diplomatic tensions between Ankara and Paris.

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