[caption id="attachment_145359" align="alignright" width="173"] Turkish riot police block a street during a protest by Muslims against the publication by Turkish daily of a sacrilegious French cartoon.[/caption]
Turkish demonstrators have gathered outside the premises of a newspaper, protesting the publication of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo�s cover in the Turkish�daily�s edition.
Around 40 protesters gathered outside the Cumhuriyet newspaper building in Istanbul on Wednesday, shouting slogans and holding placards reading �we love our prophet.�

They also set alight copies of the Turkish paper amid a heavy riot police presence which were deployed to guard the offices of the newspaper.

The protest was held against the publication by the Turkish daily newspaper of a four-page pull-out containing cartoons and articles translated into Turkish from the latest edition of the Charlie Hebdo issue.

On Wednesday, French magazine Charlie Hebdo once again published a cartoon depicting Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) on the cover of its new edition. Muslims consider depicting Prophet Mohammed as blasphemous.

Meanwhile, a Turkish court on Wednesday blocked access to some websites featuring the latest Charlie Hebdo magazine cover.

The decision to block access to the websites came from a court in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir.

�The prophet of a religion that an individual and the society believe in is indisputably an indispensable value for that religion that needs to be respected,� the court said.

The publication of the cartoon in the French magazine comes a week after the paper�s offices in Paris came under attack in�which 12 people�were killed.

By Press TV

 

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