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Almost 200 people protested in the streets of Istanbul on Sunday against Mohammed’s new publication of the French cartoon magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Twelve people, including famous cartoonists, were killed by murderous Islamists who attacked the offices of the satirical newspaper in Paris on January 7, 2015.
Fourteen people have been tried in Paris since September 2 on suspicion of providing logistical support to the three jihadists who killed a total of 17 people in three attacks. Three of them are being tried in absentia.
Protesters in Beyazit Square, on the European side of the city, carried banners threatening the newspaper and French President Emmanuel Macron that “they have to pay dearly.”
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry condemned the reissue of the sketches, calling it “a lack of respect for our religion and our prophet.”
Nureddin Sirin, editor-in-chief of the Kudus television network, said “Macron will pay dearly, both for his arrogance in the eastern Mediterranean and for his support of anti-Islamic insults under the guise of freedom of the press.”
Sirin referred, as the French Agency has clarified, to the current tensions between Ankara, Athens and Paris with respect to the Turkish oil exploration campaign in the Mediterranean.
Source: ΑΠΕ – ΜΠΕ, AFP
