Is he trying to force Germany to punish a comedian?
Is he trying to reintroduce death penalty?
Has he purged more than 2000 judges? Is it reasonable to think he has verified that all of them were bad judges during the two-three last days?
- PKK is killing your soldiers what do you do? This has nothing to do with IS.
- Ok, he has a temper and does not have a good sense of humor but please, did you find "that" poem funny?
- Oh come on. You know it was not about being bad judges.
Though yes, reintroduction of death penalty is a very bad idea. Also things are being done too hastily. All allegations are need to be verified.
The poem was just saying "THIS is what an actual insult looks like".
In light of the recent events though it appears that goats have been insulted in the poem, not Erdogan.
Saying Erdogan has sex with goats isn't funny. It's crude and it's even potentially racist (considering that sounds more like an ethnic slur than a personal insult). But that was the entire point. The poem actually went out of its way to be so appallingly insulting to drive this point home.
I don't think the performance was particularly good and I think the same point could have been made in a more tasteful way, but it should be protected as satire and I hope the German courts will rule accordingly (as many lawyers are predicting).
The entire point of the performance was a reaction to the ridiculous complaints about the earlier satirical song about Erdogan (which btw was almost entirely factual and only "insulting" because it presented Erdogan unfavourably and ridiculed his eccentricity and blatantly autocratic behaviour). It didn't set out to insult Erdogan, it was explicitly phrased as "That wasn't an insult that is illegal under German law. The following is what an insult that would be illegal under German law would look like".
Taking the poem in isolation is intellectually lazy and dishonest. It's like showcasing a replica of Michelangelo's David's penis and saying David is obscene because it's entirely about genitalia.
solid reasoning behind pursuing a criminal conviction to be sure.
But no, I did not find that poem funny, but the fact that he hasn't got a sense of humour, that turned out to be a bit funny.