Turkey police face demonstrators after prosecutor orders arrests at LeMan magazine, whose editor-in-chief denies allegation and says image has been deliberately misinterpreted

Clashes erupted in Istanbul with police firing rubber bullets and teargas to disperse a mob on Monday after allegations that a satirical magazine had published a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad.

The clashes occurred after Istanbul’s chief prosecutor ordered the arrest of the editors at LeMan magazine on grounds it had published a cartoon that “publicly insulted religious values”.

The magazine’s editor-in-chief, Tuncay Akgun, said the image had been misinterpreted.

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    2 days ago

    It’s religious terrorism. You do what their religions says or they attack you. That’s religious terrorism.

    not a protest. not a meeting. Just an entire crowd of religious terrorists trying to force their religious beliefs on everyone else. Not just this religion, all religions do this crap.

    Fuck religion and those that support it.