Turkey’s interior minister Ali Yerlikaya condemned LeMan magazine’s drawing as “shameless”, announcing that its editor-in-chief, graphic designer, institutional director and cartoonist had been detained.
Riot police were deployed in Istanbul on Monday as hundreds of people protested against the publication.
Protesters gathered outside LeMan’s offices chanting slogans such as “tooth for tooth, blood for blood, revenge, revenge”.
Turkey’s minister of justice said an investigation had been initiated by the chief public prosecutor’s office for “publicly insulting religious values”.
“The caricature or any form of visual representation of our Prophet not only harms our religious values but also damages societal peace”, Yilmaz Tunc wrote on X.
”Necessary legal steps will be taken without delay” against LeMan’s journalists, he added.
Source: The Island
