Merkel accepts Turkish request to prosecute German comedian over 'insulting poem'

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on April 15 that she accepted Turkey's request to seek prosecution of German comedian Jan Boehmermann who recited a sexually crude poem about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an on television. 

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