Sarcasm Lemon The magazine was detained by the police on Monday for questioning amid a controversy over a cartoon showing the Prophet Muhammad.
In a statement, the office of the Chief Public Prosecutor “started an investigation” in a cartoon published by the magazine on 26 June, said “openly uneven the religious values”.
The prosecutor’s office said, “Arrest warrants have been issued for the people involved.” An arrest warrant is involved Lemon Editors-in-Chief and Management Editor.
Turkish Minister of Justice Yilamaz Tanak earlier said that cartoons reflecting Muhammad were one impressed for religious sensations and social harmony.
Muhammad Cartoon expressed displeasure
In the question posted on social media, cartoon images, Prophet Muhammad and Prophet Moses are ready to show their hands in mid-hwa, while missiles in a city fur.
The Minister of Justice Tank wrote, “No freedom gives the right to create a sacred value, in a ugly way of humor.”
Internal Minister Ali Yralikaya confirmed that the cartoonist was taken into custody, and shared a video in which he was put in handcuffs in a ladder.
Using the beginning of the cartoonist, he wrote, “A person named DP who has created this Vile drawing is caught and detained.”
“Thesis shameless person wants to be responsible before the law,” he said.
Although Turkey has a secular legal system, the Islamic law was abolished in the 1920s, the law allows anyone to sentence up to a year for a year “who openly humiliate the religious values of the public.”
The magazine says the cartoon ‘does not portray the Prophet’
Turkish media said that several dozen gathered outside protesters Lemon Office in Istanbul after the image spread on social media.
However, the magazine released forgiveness on social media for any crime and said the cartoon was misunderstood.
The statement said that the cartoonist intended to highlight the suffering of a Muslim person killed in Israeli attacks rather than insulting Islam.
The magazine said, “The name Muhammad has been the most widely used in the world by the Muslim honoring the Prophet. The cartoon does not portray the Prophet and was not designed to make fun of religious value,” the magazine said, said, “Intentionally call” some interpretations “
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