Four employees of a satirical magazine in Turkey were arrested for printing a cartoon showing the Prophet Muhammad – a sacred religious number forbidden in Islam.
The Interior Minister of Turkey Ali Yerlikaya finished the drawing of Leman magazine as “shame”, announcing that the Editor’s Director and Cartotocist Narsignered director.
In a Social Media Site Post, Leman refuses to its cartoon a caricature of Muhammad, saying “The work does not refer to the Prophet Muhammed in any way”.
Police riots were placed in Istanbul on Monday while hundreds of people protested against the publication.
Protesters gathered outside the leman offices singing slogans such as “teeth for the tooth, blood for blood, revenge, revenge”.
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The Minister of Turkey’s Minister told the investigation into the public office publicly for the “public insulting of religious qualities”.
“Caricura or any form of visual representation of our prophet does not only harm our religious values but also harms society,” Yilmaz Tunc wrote to X.
“Must be legal steps to be taken without delay” against journalists, he added.
Yerlikaya also shares videos of four employees arrested in “bad drawing”.
Despert warrants are also issued for other magazine management members.
Cartoon images showed social media, showing two characters with wings floating in the sky in a city surrounded.
One of the characters is described to say that “Peace be with you, I am Murammed”, and another answer, “Peace be with you, I am” my “.
Leman begged the “good intention of readers who were hurt” but was defended by its work and rejected the allegations that the cartoon was a description of Muhammad.
“Gusto sa cartoonist nga ihulagway ang pagkamatarong sa mga dinaugdaug nga Muslim pinaagi sa paghulagway sa usa ka Muslim nga gipatay sa Israel, ug wala gyud siya nagtinguha sa pag-insulto sa mga hiyas sa relihiyon,” ingon kini sa usa ka pahayag sa X.
“We do not accept the stain that is rejected by us because we have no description of our prophet. You must not harm the cartoon in this way.”
The Editor of the Leman Editor Tuncay Akgun, now in Paris, tells AFP’s AFP wrongly written and the magazine “will never make such a risk”.
He added that the backlash was dragging “Charlie Hebdo” to be very angry “, recalling the 2015 French attacks on the French Satirical magazine after it published a caricaturic Muhammad.
Charlie Hebdo’s offices were started by gunmen killing 12 people and one of the worst security crisis in France.
