Wilders tweet irks Turkey

Turkish prosecutors yesterday launched an investigation into Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders over a tweet in which he wrote "terrorist" accompanying an image of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Wilders tweeted an image on Monday of Erdogan, with the right side of his face depicted against a Turkish flag, and the left side -- bearded and darker-skinned -- against the black-and-white flag of the Islamic State extremist group. He wrote the word "Terrorist" over the image, which was shared and liked thousands of times. The Ankara chief public prosecutor's office said it was opening a probe into the "photograph and written insult about" Erdogan.