Lun, Oct 23rd 2023
Migros has excluded the Turkish star pianist Fazil Say from a Swiss concert series because of a tweet. Say shared a post by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the short message service.
Say wrote that this was a reasonable explanation from Erdogan. Israeli President Netanyahu should be brought to justice. These statements by Say are “unsustainable” for the Migros Cooperative Association, as a media spokesman said on Saturday when asked. The online portal “blick.ch” was the first to report on Say’s disinvitation.
He was supposed to perform at four Migros Classic concerts from October 23rd to 26th in Zurich, Bern, Geneva and Lucerne. This together with the City of Birmingham Orchestra. Instead of Say, the Swiss pianist Lois Schwizgebel will now play at these concerts.
Say confirmed on X that Migros had been disinvited and wrote that he was for peace. He believed that freedom of expression was something in Europe. He leaves what he wrote on social media there.
According to the Islamist Palestinian organization Hamas, over 400 people were killed in the explosion on the grounds of Al-Ahli Hospital in the Gaza Strip. Hamas accuses Israel of shelling the hospital. Israel, on the other hand, speaks of the impact of a misguided rocket from the militant Palestinian organization Islamic Jihad. The UN has called for an international investigation.
The day after his first tweet about the rocket strike, Turkish President Erdogan followed up with a second one in which he no longer blamed Israel.
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