Turkey bans Charlie Hebdo cover, newspaper receives threats for carrying its images

While a court has reportedly banned website pages that showed the new cover of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a newspaper that published images of the cover received death threats in Turkey.

After Cumhuriyet printed a four-page sample of Charlie Hebdo's latest edition, translated into Turkish and published two columns on the inside pages that included small images of the cover, the entrance to the newspaper's Istanbul office and all the traffic around it was blocked by the police. Also, distribution trucks were stopped at the printing press in the city, reported the CNN.

An editorial published in the newspaper said that the drawing on the Charlie Hebdo cover did not seem to have anything to do with Prophet Mohammed and represented "a symbol of a humane and conscientious attitude" by saying, "'all is forgiven."

The news came as Deputy Prime Minister Yalcin Akdogan condemned the new Charlie Hebdo cover on Twitter by accusing the publishers of "disregarding the sacred." He termed the move an "open incitement and provocation."

The French satirical magazine's new cover features a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed holding a sign saying "Je suis Charlie." The caption says, "All is forgiven" in French.

It was released a week after terrorists shot dead 12 people at the magazine's Paris office.