Michael-Hubertus von Sprenger, the attorney of the Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan, attends a court session on whether to ban a satirical poem by a comedian Jan Boehmermann which caused a diplomatic spat between Ankara and Berlin after Erdogan complained that it offended him, in Hamburg, Germany November 2, 2016..REUTERS/Christain Charisius/POOL
HAMBURG, Germany (Reuters) - A German court weighed up the limits of artistic freedom on Wednesday in considering whether to ban a satirical poem that mocked Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and caused a diplomatic spat between Ankara and Berlin.
The Hamburg court had issued a preliminary injunction in May banning re-publication of parts of the poem, suggesting the president engaged in bestiality and watched child pornography, which Jan Boehmermann recited on German television in March.
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