A Turkish author was arrested for having drawn a satirical cartoon that depicts the prophet of Islam Muhammad, who appeared a few days ago on Leman, a weekly historian of Satira Turco. “Once again cursed those who try to sow hypocrisy by painting caricatures of our prophet,” said the Minister of the Interior, Ali Yerlikaya, on X announcing the artist’s arrest, identified with the initials DP, and publishing a video in which police officers are seen arrested a person, crushing him on the staircase of a building. Before arrest, a group of Islamists had attacked Leman’s headquarters, forcing the door and breaking the windows with stones and sticks.
Before the attack, the Minister of Turkish Justice, Yilmaz Tunc, had announced an investigation against the magazine, accused of “insult to religious values”, while arrest mandates were issued for the owner of the weekly and the responsible director.