(1 Jul 2025)
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Istanbul – 1 July 2025
1. Wide of demonstrators holding a banner (Turkish) “Insulting Allah’s messenger and Islamic values is not freedom of speech but Islamophobia”
2. Various of demonstration UPSOUND (Turkish) “May our lives and blood be sacrificed for the messenger of Allah”; “Long live our Islamic struggle”; (Arabic) “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger”
3. Mid of demonstrator holding a poster (Turkish) “May the hands reaching out to the Messenger be broken” UPSOUND (Turkish) “Vile LeMan, don’t forget Charlie Hebdo”
4. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Ridvan Kaya, president of Ozgur Der, an Islamic association:
The (images) that LeMan magazine published under the guise of cartoon is beyond an insult for us, it’s a direct attack, it’s an attack on our beliefs, on our values. I don’t think this was an action that was done unconsciously. We think it was a conscious provocation. This is no different than the cartoon crisis in Denmark that happened previously, or Charlie Hebdo in France. This action most definitely should not go unpunished."
5. Mid of demonstrators UPSOUND (Arabic) “Allah is great!”
6. Mid of demonstrators carrying placards
7. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Omer Faruk Kabatas, demonstrator:
"This is an issue that we should be reacting to as a nation. For example, if we ask the police here what their religion is, they’ll all say Islam. Or if we pull aside anyone here they’ll all say they believe in Islam. This is an insult to Islam’s prophet. We’re in Turkey. We’re in Istanbul. We’re in Taksim Square. Islam’s prophet is being insulted. And our police say they have taken measures against people who want to react to this, against those who want to march after prayers. We don’t understand these measures."
8. Various of demonstration UPSOUND (Turkish) “Vile LeMan, don’t forget Charlie Hebdo”
9. Various of Leman magazine’s building and damage to the office
10. Various of police near Taksim Square and LeMan magazine’s office
STORYLINE:
Turkish police detained three more employees of a satirical magazine early on Tuesday, raising the number of people taken into custody over a cartoon that allegedly depicted the Prophet Muhammad to four.
Dozens of protesters in Istanbul demonstrated against a magazine that published a cartoon that depicted a man named Muhammad and another named Moses exchanging greetings in mid-air as missiles rained down from the sky.
Chanting “May our lives and blood be sacrificed for the messenger of Allah,” protestors gathered under heavy police presence at a mosque near the city’s main square Tuesday.
The cartoon published in LeMan drew a string of condemnation from government officials who stated the cartoon represented the Prophet Muhammad and sparked angry protests.
The magazine has denied that the illustration depicts the Prophet Muhammad.
Authorities launched an investigation into the weekly magazine over accusations of “publicly insulting religious values” and detained the cartoonist, Dogan Pehlivan, from his home.
Overnight, Leman’s editor-in-chief Zafer Aknar, graphic designer Cebrail Okcu and manager Ali Yavuz were also detained, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
Detention warrants were also issued for two editors who are believed to be abroad, the report said.
Late on Monday, demonstrators, reportedly belonging to an Islamic group, hurled rocks at LeMan’s headquarters in central Istanbul and scuffled with police.
Associated Press footage showed some damage inflicted on the building.
AP video by Mehmet Guzel
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