If Prime Minister Thatcher had had the thin skin of Turkey’s President Erdoğan, political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe would have been in and out of prison. 

Despite cartooning her as a chicken, a shark, a sharp-nosed Torydactyl, and the 'top bitch' at Crufts, he remained free to produce his bloody lampoons.

Compare this with President Erdoğan: Over 100 people face legal action for insulting him since he became president last August.

Read more of Barbara Lodge's blog. Barbara is Amnesty's Country Coordinator for Turkey.

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/blogs/country-specialists/free-speech-turkey…