Turkey arrests journalists over alleged cartoon of Prophet Muhammad

Clashes broke out outside the Istanbul office of the satirical magazine LeMan.

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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.

LeMan denied its cartoon was a caricature of Muhammad, writing on X that "the work does not refer to the Prophet Muhammed in any way".

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".