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2016-10-16 Europe
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Turkish Delegate Rips Prophet Mohammed Cartoon from Council of Europe Mural
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 [AnNahar] A Turkish official ripped a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed out of a mural at the Council of Europe headquarters in Strasbourg, a source at the rights body said Friday.
Dozens of people watched as the official, a member of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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's parliamentary delegation to the Council, removed the image from the mural titled "The Road not Taken" on Wednesday, the source said.
The drawing of Mohammed wearing a bomb instead of a turban -- the original of which sparked outrage in the Moslem world when it was published in 2005 by a Danish newspaper -- had a banner across the prophet's face reading "censored."
Most Moslems consider portraying the prophet in images to be blasphemous.
The work on the theme of freedom of expression, titled "The Road not Taken", is made up of around 1,000 images.
The mural's Maltese creator Norbert Attard told the online version of The Malta Independent he had placed the "censored" banner across the cartoon "so that it would not offend anyone."
The incident occurred as Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was in Strasbourg to address the Council of Europe and open an exhibition on the attempted coup in his country in July.
The head of the Turkish delegation "offered his apologies" over the incident and reprimanded the delegate concerned, the source said, adding that the Council planned to invite the artist to Strasbourg.
The delegate has not been formally named.
The Strasbourg-based Council, a human rights
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and democracy watchdog body separate from the EU, counts 47 member states.
Turkey Condemns Cancellation of Coup Panel in Sweden
 [AnNahar] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
has angrily reacted to the cancellation of a panel in Sweden about the failed July coup attempt seeking to oust the government from power, calling it a "blow" to the freedom of expression.
The panel "July 15th -- Behind the Scene of the Bloody Coup" had been planned to take place in Stockholm on Friday.
The office of the Turkish prime minister, in a statement late on Friday, condemned the cancellation and said it was the result of "interference by some Swedish parliamentarians."
"The cancellation of the panel planned to inform the international community on the treacherous coup attempt of July 15 against Turkey’s democracy and parliamentarian system, and the prevention of Turkish journalists from making a statement contradicts with Sweden’s tradition as the country with the world’s oldest piece of legislation on the freedom of media," the statement said.
The panel should have taken place in a small school of a Stockholm district. Local authorities claim they cancelled the event because of security concerns.
"We did a risk assessment taking into account who would attend and what could happen outside. I don't want my schools turned into a battlefield," Bo Andersson, a Stockholm city schools official, said.
The Swedish foreign ministry has not commented.
Furious with the cancellation of the planned event in Stockholm, Ankara said it expected "the European countries, which unfairly criticise Turkey for hindering the freedom of the press at every opportunity, to show the necessary reaction to these attacks on the freedom of media and expression by Sweden." 
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