Turkish police arrested four employees of LeMan magazine following protests over a cartoon depicting a Muslim man named Muhammad. The magazine claims the drawing, which sparked condemnation from officials and protests, was meant to highlight the suffering of Muslims, not insult religious values. Authorities launched an investigation for "publicly insulting religious values." The magazine's editor-in-chief, from Paris, denies the cartoon was a depiction of the Prophet Muhammad, stating it was a fictionalized representation of a Muslim killed in Israeli bombings. Arrest warrants were issued for additional executives.

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