Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy

My phone rang last week late in an afternoon. A very polite female reporter, with an accented Turkish which revealed she has been living abroad for many years, asked for a television interview. The theme was ?To listen to a Muslim female humorist how it is to make humor in a Muslim country.? I don?t think I need to say that this was part of the file prepared upon the attack on Charlie Hebdo.

Cumhuriyet said in a statement on Feb. 9 that Can Dündar has now become its new editor-in-chief, with Tahir Özyurtseven as his deputy. 

On Jan. 15, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu strongly criticized Cumhuriyet for reprinting a Charlie Hebdo cartoon featuring the Prophet Muhammad, saying freedom of expression ?does not grant anybody the right to insult another?s beliefs.?

?We have been following with great concern what is happening at the Fatih Mosque in Istanbul,? a Western diplomat told me, in reference to demonstrations of support of the Kouachi brothers who attacked the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo last month.

French authorities have filed preliminary charges of terrorism against a French citizen extradited from Bulgaria and linked to the two gunmen who conducted the deadly attack against satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo earlier this month, international newswires reported.

France: Child questioned by police for "supporting terror"

PARIS -- An eight-year-old boy in France was questioned by police on Wednesday after he allegedly made comments in praise of terrorists, police said.

Bulgaria is to extradite Thursday a French citizen suspected of having been in close contact with the Kouachi brothers, who killed 12 people at the Paris Office of Charlie Hebdo weekly.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has greeted around 100,000 people who protested French magazine Charlie Hebdo in Diyarbak?r, while also cheering for Hizbullah.

Around 100,000 people have protested the French magazine Charlie Hebdo in Diyarbak?r, a Kurdish-majority city in Turkey's southeast, cheering for Turkish Hizbullah.

The Lovers of the Prophet Platform organized the two-hour long Jan. 24 protest at the central ?stasyon Square with the participation of thousands of demonstrators coming from nearby towns, Do?an News Agency reported. 

NOVI PAZAR - A peaceful protest walk was held in Novi Pazar on Friday against the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in the French weekly Charlie Hebdo and other medias.

The protest walk was organized after the largest Friday congregational prayer service in Novi Pazar mosques. The gathered locals held a banner saying "Muhammad" and shouted "Allah is one".

Thousands march against Muhammad cartoons

NOVI PAZAR -- About 5,000 people in Serbia's southwestern town of Novi Pazar on Friday took part in a peaceful protest against cartoons depicting Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Novi Pazar is the largest town in the Raska District, also known informally as Sandzak, that is home to a large Muslim minority.