The completely harmless drawing of Muhammad, who meets Moses in heaven, led the attack of Islamists on Monday evening to the editorial team of the most important Turkish satirical magazine Leman, Where it appeared. And arrest a draft.
The video show how a crowded crowd on Monday evening in the middle of the Istanbul district Bayglu shouts stones against the house in which editors Leman The located police was present, but did not intervene. Instead, other police officers stormed the editorial team, took a draft and three other employees Leman Fixed and occupied the building. So far, the police LemanThe editor -for -chief, Islamists fell on pubs and bars in the area. The main attention was focused on the bar where members of the editorial article Leman Presumably often mentioned. Troubles developed, in which about 300 people were involved; KnipMemakers, who defended themselves from Islamists and police officers who arrested visitors to the pub.
The authorities and the police did not respond to the attacks of the Islamist crowd. Instead, the Minister of Internal Affairs Ali Jerlikay spoke about the “disgusting idea” and provocations LemanHe announced that in addition to the already arrested, the prosecutor’s office, the prosecutor’s office Leman-T employee.
Leman Siliated with Charlie Hebdo
Satire magazine was founded in 1991 Leman For a long time I was on the side of religious and especially radical Islamists, especially after a public magazine with a French satirical magazine Charlie Hybdo Solitated, which became a victim of a cruel Islamic terrorist act in 2015. Tunsai Akgun, editor -in -chief of of Leman, He informed the AFP agency by phone that the photograph, therefore, was intentionally interpreted incorrectly. This is not a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad, only the drawing requires reconciliation.
All this happens in a politically sensitive time. Out of fear of defeat in the election, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was huge against a secular opposition in the country for several months and is trying to defeat the leading opposition party, ChP, through a number of processes and arrests. Even in the records of the Islamist demonstration, slogans against kemalists and thermal power plants and thermal power plants were heard.
Lee Leman It may appear in the future unclear. Most of the former satirical magazines in Turkey have already been closed over the past few years.
