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ANKARA - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has appealed a court decision that rejected compensation to him from Penguen, a satirical weekly, for its caricatures depicting Erdogan as animals.
The local court had decided that it was not an insult to portray Erdogan as animals.
In his appeal, attorney Fatih Sahin said that the caricatures were an assault to Prime Minister Erdogan's personal rights.
Penguen's front page on February 24, 2005 (with a title of 'The Tayyip World') was meant to protest a fine imposed on a political cartoonist who had depicted Erdogan as a cat entangled in a ball of wool over his government's failure to pass a bill easing conditions for religious school graduates to pursue higher education in fields other than theology.