Turkish police detained three more employees of a satirical magazine on Tuesday, raising the number of people taken into custody over a cartoon that allegedly depicted the Prophet Muhammad to four.

The Turkish government is taking action against those it accuses of depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a cartoon in a satirical magazine. Turkey's president called the cartoon a "vile provocation" and ...

Satirical cartooning may not be dead in Turkey, but it’s on life support. The country’s oldest satire magazine, Girgir, shut down in February amid a controversy over a cartoon depiction of ...

The controversy has once again placed the spotlight on Turkey’s poor record on media freedoms. The media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders has ranked Turkey 159th out of 180 nations in ...

A cartoon, depicting what appeared to be a Prophet Muhammad and Moses, both with wings and halos, greeting each other as bombs fall below, has sparked concerns in TurkeyThe cartoonist has been ...

Turkish police have detained four employees of the satirical magazine LeMan over a controversial cartoon which authorities claim depicted the Prophet Muhammad. The cartoon, published in the ...

Turkish authorities on Wednesday arrested four staff members of a satirical magazine on charges of inciting “public hatred and enmity” over a controversial cartoon that officials claim depicts ...

Aslan Ozdemir, the chief editor of LeMan, was detained at Istanbul Airport on 12th July after returning from France. This ...

Controversial French magazine Charlie Hebdo further enflamed Turkey on Wednesday with a cover mocking President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — which the leader called “disgusting” work by &#822… ...

Authorities in Turkey have arrested four staff members of a satirical publication following the release of a cartoon that appears to depict the Proph Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT عربي ...