The opposition Left party's spokesman on media matters Harald Petzold said his party would lodge a formal complaint with ZDF against the poem's deletion. "That, however, provides no grounds for invective, which is not covered by freedom of opinion and artist expression," said Lindner.
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von JutrczenkaĪmong German parliamentarians, opposition liberal Free Democrat leader Christian Lindner told the "Die Welt" newspaper that Erdogan's policies must be sharply criticised. Poem went too far, says Lindner Image: picture-alliance/dpa/B. Merkel's government faced criticism over its delayed public response to that spat, with the EU relying on Turkey under a deal reached last month to limit the flow of migrants to Europe. The row turned the two-minute clip into a YouTube hit viewed millions of times. The song entitled "Erdowie, Erdowo, Erdogan," broadcast in the "extra 3" program of German NDR public television, had ridiculed Erdogan's alleged extravagance and a crackdown on civil liberties. That was an allusion to the satirical song that originally drew Erdogan's ire, prompting Ankara last week to call in Germany's ambassador to demand that it be pulled off the air. And, the episode still had the title "Böhmerwie (why), Böhmerwo (where), Böhmermann." In a repeat broadcast on Saturday night, the poem had been removed, but the presenter could still be seen with an Erdogan photo hanging off the studio's back wall. That relates to the video in the Mediathek, clips on YouTube, and re-runs," the program chief said. "As a result, in consultation with Jan Böhmermann, we have decided to take the passage out of the broadcast. "In this case, they were clearly exceeded," said Himmler. On Friday, ZDF Program director Norbert Himmler had told the German news agency DPA that the channel had "broad shoulders" editorially, but there were limits to irony and satire. Reacting to the deletion on Monday, Böhmermann quipped: "I think we have spectacularly shown, jointly with ZDF, where the limits of satire lie by us in Germany. She had also reiterated the "high value" the German government placed on freedoms of the press and public opinion, Seibert added.
On Monday, German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said Chancellor Angela Merkel in a telephone call on Sunday evening with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu had agreed that Böhmermann had recited a "deliberately abusive text." Sie haben 'ZDF Magazin Royale' verpasst, wollen die Sendung aber auf jeden Fall noch schauen Schauen Sie doch mal in der ZDFneo-Mediathek vorbei.
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