A contest offering a prize for the most offensive poem about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been launched by a British magazine after German authorities began criminal proceedings against a comedian for offending him.
The Spectator is offering £1,000 (about US$1,400), donated by a reader, to the writer of the rudest limerick about the Turkish president.
Journalist Douglas Murray, who announced the competition online, said it was in response to Germany’s decision to prosecute comedian Jan Böhmermann for reciting a rude poem about Erdogan on a late-night comedy show.
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