Macron Defends Magazine That Labeled Erdogan a ‘Dictator’
- Weekly magazine Le Point cover called Erdogan a ‘dictator’
- Macron says attacks on kiosks selling magazine ‘unacceptable’
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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French President Emmanuel Macron waded into a debate over a magazine cover that labeled Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as a “dictator,” saying attacks on kiosks selling the latest issue were unacceptable.
“Freedom of the press has no price: without it, it’s dictatorship,” Macron said on Twitter late on Monday. “It is totally unacceptable that Le Point posters are being ripped off kiosks on the grounds they displease the enemies of freedom of the press, in France and abroad.”