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Youtube banned this video, The German/European broadcaster ZDF redacted it from their popular show, and we have the video right here.

Above is the original video which prompted Erdogan to call the German ambassador to Turkey in to request it be pulled.

The Germans, to their credit, refused. Instead, the same video mocking Erdogan was rebroadcast but with Turkish subtitles shortly after the Turkish demand to pull the original German version.

On March 31st, the German ZDF show, Jan Böhmermann’s “Neo Magazine Royale" published a poem mocking Erdogan in a less family friendly way, but presenting it as an example of what would constitute going to far in terms of political satire within the terms of freedom of speech.

Here is the complete segment that was deleted, with English subtitles:

The German News site, Welt.De, describes the entire timeline and rational of the show's producers for pulling the segment. According to De Welt:

As ZDF has confirmed the segment had already been aired on ZDFneo. “The parody on “Neo Magazine Royale” from March 31, about the proper handling of the turkish president with satire did not correspond with the standards that ZDF has set for satirical programs”, the station explained. “For this reason, that segment from the show was removed.”

ZDF, The TV station at the center of this, is huge, with channels in Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Slovenia, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Denmark, Kosovo