{"id":69428,"date":"2025-07-01T15:06:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T15:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69428"},"modified":"2025-07-01T15:06:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T15:06:05","slug":"turkish-police-raid-magazine-over-alleged-blasphemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/01\/turkish-police-raid-magazine-over-alleged-blasphemy\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Police Raid Magazine Over Alleged Blasphemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Turkish police have arrested four staff members of the satirical magazine Leman over an alleged caricature of the Prophet Mohammed, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced late Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Yerlikaya described the cartoon as \u201cdespicable\u201d and shared footage of the arrests, which included the magazine\u2019s graphic designer, illustrator, editor-in-chief, and managing director.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Minister Y\u0131lmaz Tun\u00e7 also confirmed an investigation into Leman for allegedly \u201cpublicly denigrating religious values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Leman denied the accusation, stating via X that the cartoon did not depict the Prophet Mohammed.<\/p>\n<p>Footage showed police using cable ties to restrain the suspects before escorting them from the magazine\u2019s Istanbul office.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests followed a protest outside Leman\u2019s office in the Beyo\u011flu district, where demonstrators reportedly chanted \u201cLong live Sharia\u201d and vandalized the premises.<\/p>\n<p>In response, authorities imposed a one-day ban on public gatherings in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The Contemporary Lawyers Association (CHD) condemned the arrests as \u201ctorture,\u201d accusing the government of using the incident as a pretext to suppress dissent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David Turkish police have arrested four staff members of the satirical magazine Leman over an alleged caricature of the Prophet Mohammed, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced late Monday. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Yerlikaya described the cartoon as \u201cdespicable\u201d and shared footage of the arrests, which included the magazine\u2019s graphic designer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":69429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69430,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69428\/revisions\/69430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}