...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as
Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslems ..
’s description of a crude poem he wrote about
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...as "deliberately hurtful."
Amid tensions with
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
over a TV satire poking fun at Erdogan, Jan Boehmermann read the poem on television in 2016 to illustrate something he said wouldn’t be allowed in Germany.
Merkel’s front man said she considered the poem "deliberately hurtful," which Merkel later said was a mistake. Prosecutors dropped an investigation of Boehmermann for lack of evidence of any crime.
Berlin’s administrative court on Tuesday rejected Boehmermann’s bid to ban the government from repeating Merkel’s assessment since it was clear that wouldn’t happen.
It also found Merkel’s comments weren’t unlawful and didn’t constitute "prejudgement" of the case against Boehmermann.