1/7/2025–|Last update: 22:33 (Mecca time)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned today, Tuesday, insulting fees to the Prophet Muhammad published by a Turkish magazine, describing it as “a fiercely disturbed provocation in a humorous form.”
Erdogan said in a speech during a party activity in the capital, Ankara, “Since the Turkish nation was honored by Islam, it was distinguished by its love for the Messenger of God, and the most important thing that distinguishes it is this love,” Erdogan said in a speech during a party activity in the capital, Ankara.
He added that “the mockery of our generous Messenger by people who have no morals and do not know the values of the nation and do not know decency and literature is unacceptable,” stressing that “it will be held accountable before the law, whoever offended our Prophet Muhammad – may God bless him and grant him peace – and other prophets.”
He said, “We will follow the matter as long as we are in the position, and we will not tolerate any person who insults our holy values in this country,” before concluding saying, “Our primary duty to protect the memory of our beloved Prophet and its precious heritage that illuminated our path and filled our hearts with mercy, and we consider this an honor for us.”
Meanwhile, hundreds in Istanbul demonstrated against the opposition “Lehman” magazine, which stands behind the drawings, chanted, chanting “Lehman .. Do not forget Charlie Hebdo.”
The Independence Avenue in the center of Istanbul witnessed clashes between protesters and the police after announcing the arrest of the owner of the drawing and 3 of his colleagues.
No malicious intention
Meanwhile, 6 arrest orders were issued against editors and employees in the magazine accused of publishing a “explicitly misfortune to religious values.”
The editor -in -chief of the magazine, Tunkai Akgon – who was outside the country – denied the existence of any malicious intention, and said, “This drawing does not in any way represent a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad,” noting that the drawing belongs to a Muslim who was killed in Gaza during the Israeli bombing.
Interior Minister Ali Yerli Qaya said that he had stopped 4 of them, including the cartoonist, stressing that “these ungrateful individuals will be held accountable for their actions before the judiciary.”
The aforementioned drawing shows two people in the sky above a city destroyed by bombs, and one of them says as the other shakes hands, “Peace be upon you, I am Muhammad,” and the second person responds to him, saying, “Peace be upon you, I am Moses.”
In a post on the X platform, the magazine confirmed that “the painter wanted to show justice to the oppressed Muslim people by photographing a Muslim who was killed by an Israeli, and he was never intended to reduce religious values.”
In March 2002, the cartoonists visited Charlie Hebdo magazine Lehman and published a special number of Turkish colleagues, and the French magazine at the time referred to Lyman as “our younger Turkish sister.”
For his part, the representative of the “Reporters Without Borders” in Turkey, Airul Undenduglu, condemned the arrests carried out by the Turkish authorities and police intervention, saying, “The safety of cartoonists must now be the main issue of the authorities.”