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An image of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan seemingly rebuffing French president Emmanuel Macron's handshake is being misleadingly shared with the claim that Erdogan did not shake Macron's hand due to the French president's defence about the Prophet Mohammed cartoons. BOOM found that the image is from 2018, years before Macron defended the right of cartoonists to draw the Prophet Mohammed.