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Germany’s public broadcaster ZDF said it will offer comedian Jan Boehmermann full legal protection after the German government gave the green light to his potential prosecution for mocking the Turkish president.ZDF director general Thomas Bellut told Der Spiegel magazine on Saturday that the company will defend its top comic Jan Boehmermann in all courts as he currently faces defamation charges filed against him upon request of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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