Jan Böhmermann

The Twitter account of Yanis Varoufakis was reportedly hacked on Friday evening by what the former finance minister described as "Turkish fascists."

Hackers posted videos with Turkish-language content saying among other things, "We will raise the Turkish flag in Athens. Wait for the noble Turkish warriors."

The German government voted on Jan. 25 to scrap a "lese majeste" law that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had sought to employ against a popular German television satirist. 

Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet decided to abolish by Jan. 1, 2018 the rarely enforced section of the criminal code that prohibits insulting organs or representatives of foreign states.

Yanis Varoufakis has claimed that German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble had decided to overthrow the conservative government of Antonis Samaras in June 2014.

“Do you have the impression that Schauble cares about Greece? He knows that there is no way the memorandums will succeed in our country. The only thing he wants is to control the French budget”, ex-Finance Minister of Greece Yianis Varoufakis told an audience during the presentation of his new book titled “The Abduction of Europe”.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has appealed against German prosecutors' decision to drop an investigation into a TV comic who wrote a crude poem about him.

German prosecutors previously said they were dropping the case against Jan Böhmermann, citing insufficient evidence that he had committed any crime.

German prosecutors have said they have dropped their investigation into a TV comic who wrote a crude poem about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, citing insufficient evidence that he committed any crime.

A German court has thrown out a bid by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an for an interim injunction against Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner in order to prevent him from repeating a poem by German comedian Jan Böhmermann, after the CEO penned an open letter expressing support for the satirist, Deutsche Press-Agentur has reported. 

Germany's Justice Ministry has completed a draft to abolish a criminal law that enables Germany to try its citizens on charges of insulting foreign political leaders, Deutsche Welle Turkish reported on April 28.

The Netherlands’ largest newspaper ‘De Telegraaph’ has published a front page cartoon depicting Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan as an ape trampling on freedom of speech in Europe!

British author and journalist Douglas Murray announced the start of an "offensive poetry competition" about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an on April 18, amid the ongoing "insult" row between a German comedian and the president.