dehumour1-9, Exercise 2: The Böhmermann affair in six sentences

Model answer (check the details):

1. In March 2016 the satirist Jan Böhmermann read a crude poem about the Turkish president Erdoğan on German television, introduced as an example of the difference between satire and forbidden abuse.
2. The Turkish government asked for a prosecution under section 103 of the Criminal Code, which covered insulting a foreign head of state.
3. The German government allowed an investigation, while saying it wanted the section abolished.
4. Supporters of Böhmermann said the poem was framed as a lesson, that satire must be free to exaggerate, and that a law shielding foreign rulers from insult was out of date.
5. Critics said the content was abuse that drew on ethnic and sexual stereotypes, and that the framing did not change its effect.
6. Prosecutors dropped the case in 2016 and section 103 was repealed from 2018, though civil proceedings about the text went on separately.

Note: no judgement is given on who was right; the exercise is to report the positions fairly. Dates and outcomes should be checked.