Islam In Turkey

Three cartoonists arrested in Turkey over alleged Prophet Muhammad drawing

LeMan, one of Turkey’s oldest satirical publications, has continued to operate despite a wave of shutdowns targeting media critical of Turkish President Erdogan.

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Placards are burned during a protest against the publications of a cartoon of Prophet Mohammad in France media and President Emmanuel Macron's comments, in Istanbul, Turkey October 30, 2020.
AN ISIS fighter uses his phone to lm a military parade in Syria’s northern Raqqa province in 2014

Suspected ISIS members arrested in Turkey - report

The suspects were reportedly planning terror attacks on several consulates and places of Christian and Jewish worship.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Demonstration against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Sweden’s NATO bid, in Stockholm

Protests in Stockholm, including Koran-burning, draw strong condemnation from Turkey

Finland and Sweden signed a three-way agreement with Turkey in 2022 aimed at overcoming Ankara's objections to their membership of NATO.

|ByREUTERS
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu greets his supporters as they gather in front of his office as a Turkish court sentenced Imamoglu to more than two years in prison and imposed a political ban for insulting public officials, in Istanbul, Turkey December 14, 2022.

Thousands protest against conviction of Istanbul mayor

A court convicted the mayor to two years and seven months in prison and a political ban for calling public officials "fools" in 2019.

|ByREUTERS

Provocation is in the eye of the beholder

The Jerusalem Municipality’s planning approval for a nine-story yeshiva in an Arab neighborhood is more than bad timing.

FEBRUARY 13, 2014ByBARRY LEFF
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