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  • Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has joined a growing fury in parts of the Muslim world demanding a boycott on French goods.

  • It's over images being displayed in France of the Prophet Mohammed, which some Muslims consider blasphemous.

  • Erdogan, who has a history of fraught relations with France's president Macron, said the country was pursuing an anti Islam agenda.

  • In Bangladesh, protesters unfurled placards with a caricature of the French leader on the words Macron is the enemy of peace.

  • In the Middle East of Jordanian supermarket began removing French products from its shelves on Sunday in what was said to be a protest against comments by Macron unquote Islamist separatism.

  • Shopkeepers at the supermarket covered up shelves alongside signs explaining why the spat follows a knife attack outside of French school on October 16 in which an 18 year old man of Chechen origin beheaded Samuel Patty.

  • The 47 year old middle school teacher, had shown pupils cartoons of Mohammed.

  • French officials said the beheading was an attack on the country's core value or freedom of expression, including the right to publish the cartoons.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has joined a growing fury in parts of the Muslim world demanding a boycott on French goods.

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