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The Irish Sun
14-07-2025
- Sport
- The Irish Sun
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain ‘has Besiktas contract terminated' with former England star's career left in limbo
ALEX OXLADE-CHAMBERLAIN has become a free agent after Besiktas terminated his contract. Oxlade-Chamberlain, 31, joined the Turkish giants from 2 Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has become a free agent after Besiktas terminated his contract 2 Besiktas tore Oxlade-Chamberlain's deal after paying him a hefty severance fee According to Yeni Safak, the Istanbul outfit tore the versatile midfielder's deal after paying him a hefty severance fee. The same source claims Besiktas paid £1.2million in order to release the former England international. That would pose as a cheaper price than to pay the former The ex-Liverpool ace's contract with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side ran until 2026. Read More on Football Sources told SunSport Oxlade-Chamberlain fell out of favour in Solskjaer's eyes ahead of the coming season. The same sources claim Besiktas initially wanted to pay the ex- However, the central midfielder refused to accept and a meeting took place where a final decision was made to pay everything in full. Oxlade-Chamberlain amassed a mere total of five goals and one assist in 50 appearances with Besiktas. Most read in Football The former Premier League ace's future is currently uncertain after his exit from the Turkish outfit. Besiktas, though, will still have English representation this coming season. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain shows off his football skills at Beşiktaş Training Solskjaer's side
San Francisco Chronicle
01-07-2025
- Politics
- San Francisco Chronicle
Turkish police detain 3 more employees of satirical magazine over prophet cartoon controversy
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish police detained three more employees of a satirical magazine on Tuesday, raising the number of people taken into custody over a cartoon that authorities claim depicted the Prophet Muhammad to four. The cartoon, published in LeMan magazine, drew a string of condemnation from government officials and sparked an angry protest outside the magazine's Istanbul office. LeMan, in a statement late Monday, denied the allegations and insisted the drawing was intended to portray a Muslim man named Muhammad and was meant to highlight the suffering of Muslims. The pro-government Yeni Safak newspaper said the cartoon showed 'two figures alleged to be Prophet Muhammad and Prophet Moses — with wings and halos — shaking hands in the sky, while a war scene unfolds below with bombs raining down.' The independent Birgun newspaper also said the winged figures hovering in the sky were interpreted by some as Prophets Muhammad and Moses. Authorities on Monday launched an investigation into the weekly magazine over accusations of 'publicly insulting religious values' and detained the cartoonist, Dogan Pehlevan, from his home. Overnight, LeMan's Editor-in-Chief Zafer Aknar, graphic designer Cebrail Okcu and manager Ali Yavuz were also detained, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. Detention warrants were also issued for two editors who are believed to be abroad, the report said. Late on Monday, demonstrators, reportedly belonging to an Islamic group, hurled rocks at LeMan's headquarters in central Istanbul and scuffled with police. On Tuesday, dozens of protesters also staged a protest following noon prayers at a mosque at Istanbul's main square, under heavy police presence. They held up a poster that read: 'Insulting the Messenger of God and Islamic values is not freedom of expression, it's Islamophobia.' 'I believe it is an attack against faiths and our values,' Ridvan Kaya, the head of the Ozgur-Der association that organized the protest, told The Associated Press. 'This act should definitely not go unpunished.' Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also criticized what he said was 'disrespect' shown to the Prophet Muhammad. 'It is a clear provocation disguised as humor' he said in a televised address. 'Those who have shown insolence toward the Messenger of God and other prophets will be held accountable before the law.' The publication apologized for any offense caused, but it also called on authorities to act against what it described as a smear campaign and to protect freedom of expression. Separate videos of the arrests, shared by Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya, showed Pehlevan and Yavuz being forcibly taken from their homes, their hands being cuffed behind their backs. 'These shameless people will be held accountable before the law,' Yerlikaya wrote on X. The controversy has once again placed the spotlight on Turkey's poor record on media freedoms. The media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders has ranked Turkey 159th out of 180 nations in its 2025 Press Freedom Index. On Tuesday, Media Freedom Rapid Response, or MFRR, a group that monitors media freedom violations, condemned what it said were 'attacks' against LeMan and its staff, calling on Turkish authorities to uphold press freedoms and ensure the safety of media workers. 'In the name of freedom of expression and #MediaFreedom, we stand with the cartoonists and call on authorities to take immediate action to protect LeMan and its artists, and to put an end to the targeting,' MFRR said on X.
NBC News
01-07-2025
- Politics
- NBC News
Police in Turkey detain satirical magazine employees over Prophet Muhammad cartoon controversy
Police in Turkey detained three more employees of a satirical magazine on Tuesday, raising the number of people taken into custody over a cartoon that allegedly depicted the Prophet Muhammad to four. The cartoon, published in LeMan magazine, drew a string of condemnation from government officials who stated it represented the Prophet Muhammad and sparked an angry protest outside the magazine's Istanbul office. LeMan, in a statement late Monday, denied the allegations and insisted the drawing was intended to portray a Muslim man named Muhammad and was meant to highlight the suffering of Muslims. The pro-government Yeni Safak newspaper said the cartoon showed 'two figures alleged to be Prophet Muhammad and Prophet Moses — with wings and halos — shaking hands in the sky, while a war scene unfolds below with bombs raining down.' The independent Birgun newspaper also said the winged figures hovering in the sky were interpreted by some as Prophets Muhammad and Moses. Authorities on Monday launched an investigation into the weekly magazine over accusations of 'publicly insulting religious values' and detained the cartoonist, Dogan Pehlevan, from his home. Overnight, LeMan's Editor-in-Chief Zafer Aknar, graphic designer Cebrail Okcu and manager Ali Yavuz were also detained, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. Detention warrants were also issued for two editors who are believed to be abroad, the report said. Late on Monday, demonstrators, reportedly belonging to an Islamic group, hurled rocks at LeMan's headquarters in central Istanbul and scuffled with police. The publication apologized for any offense caused, but it also called on authorities to act against what it described as a smear campaign and to protect freedom of expression. Separate videos of the arrests, shared by Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya, showed Pehlevan and Yavuz being forcibly taken from their homes, their hands being cuffed behind their backs. 'These shameless people will be held accountable before the law,' Yerlikaya wrote on X.
CBS News
01-07-2025
- Politics
- CBS News
Satirical magazine employees detained over prophet cartoon controversy in Turkey
Turkish police detained three more employees of a satirical magazine on Tuesday, raising the number of people taken into custody over a cartoon that allegedly depicted the Prophet Muhammad to four. The cartoon, published in LeMan magazine, drew a string of condemnation from government officials who stated it represented the Prophet Muhammad and sparked an angry protest outside the magazine's Istanbul office. LeMan, in a statement late Monday, denied the allegations and insisted the drawing was intended to portray a Muslim man named Muhammad and was meant to highlight the suffering of Muslims. The pro-government Yeni Safak newspaper said the cartoon showed "two figures alleged to be Prophet Muhammad and Prophet Moses - with wings and halos - shaking hands in the sky, while a war scene unfolds below with bombs raining down." The independent Birgun newspaper also said the winged figures hovering in the sky were interpreted by some as Prophets Muhammad and Moses. Authorities on Monday launched an investigation into the weekly magazine over accusations of "publicly insulting religious values" and detained the cartoonist, Dogan Pehlevan, from his home. Islamist protesters clash with Turkish anti riot police officers as they gather to protest LeMan cartoon magazine in Istanbul on June 30, 2025. OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images Overnight, LeMan's Editor-in-Chief Zafer Aknar, graphic designer Cebrail Okcu and manager Ali Yavuz were also detained, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. Detention warrants were also issued for two editors who are believed to be abroad, the report said. Late on Monday, demonstrators, reportedly belonging to an Islamic group, hurled rocks at LeMan's headquarters in central Istanbul and scuffled with police. The publication apologized for any offense caused, but it also called on authorities to act against what it described as a smear campaign and to protect freedom of expression. Separate videos of the arrests, shared by Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya, showed Pehlevan and Yavuz being forcibly taken from their homes, their hands being cuffed behind their backs. "These shameless people will be held accountable before the law," Yerlikaya wrote on X. Peygamber Efendimizin (S.A.V) karikatürünü yaparak nifak tohumları ekmeye çalışanları bir kez daha lanetliyorum. Bu alçak çizimi yapan D.P. adlı şahıs yakalanarak gözaltına alınmıştır. Bir kez daha yineliyorum: Bu hayasızlar hukuk önünde hesap verecektir. — Ali Yerlikaya (@AliYerlikaya) June 30, 2025 "You will not escape from our security forces or from justice," Yerlikaya wrote in a separate post. "An act of annihilation" But the magazine's editor-in-chief, Tuncay Akgun, told AFP by phone from Paris that the image had been misinterpreted and was "not a caricature of Prophet Mohammed." "In this work, the name of a Muslim who was killed in the bombardments of Israel is fictionalized as Mohammed. More than 200 million people in the Islamic world are named Mohammed," he said, saying it had "nothing to do with Prophet Mohammed. "We would never take such a risk," he said. Police had also taken over the magazine's offices on Istiklal Avenue and arrest warrants had been issued for several other of the magazine's executives, presidential press aide Fahrettin Altin wrote on X. In a string of posts on X, LeMan defended the cartoon and said it had been deliberately misinterpreted to cause a provocation. "The cartoonist wanted to portray the righteousness of the oppressed Muslim people by depicting a Muslim killed by Israel, he never intended to belittle religious values," it said. Akgun said the legal attack on the magazine, a satirical bastion of opposition which was founded in 1991, was "incredibly shocking but not very surprising." "This is an act of annihilation. Ministers are involved in the whole business, a cartoon is distorted," he said. "Drawing similarities with Charlie Hebdo is very intentional and very worrying," he said of the French satirical magazine whose offices were stormed by Islamist gunmen in 2015. The attack, which killed 12 people, occurred after it published caricatures lampooning the Prophet Mohammed. Agence France-Presse contributed to this report.
01-07-2025
- Politics
Turkey detains 3 magazine staff over prophet cartoon controversy
ISTANBUL -- Turkish police detained three more employees of a satirical magazine on Tuesday, raising the number of people taken into custody over a cartoon that allegedly depicted the Prophet Muhammad to four. The cartoon, published in LeMan magazine, drew a string of condemnation from government officials who stated it represented the Prophet Muhammad and sparked an angry protest outside the magazine's Istanbul office. LeMan, in a statement late Monday, denied the allegations and insisted the drawing was intended to portray a Muslim man named Muhammad and was meant to highlight the suffering of Muslims. The pro-government Yeni Safak newspaper said the cartoon showed 'two figures alleged to be Prophet Muhammad and Prophet Moses — with wings and halos — shaking hands in the sky, while a war scene unfolds below with bombs raining down.' The independent Birgun newspaper also said the winged figures hovering in the sky were interpreted by some as Prophets Muhammad and Moses. Authorities on Monday launched an investigation into the weekly magazine over accusations of 'publicly insulting religious values' and detained the cartoonist, Dogan Pehlevan, from his home. Overnight, LeMan's Editor-in-Chief Zafer Aknar, graphic designer Cebrail Okcu and manager Ali Yavuz were also detained, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. Detention warrants were also issued for two editors who are believed to be abroad, the report said. Late on Monday, demonstrators, reportedly belonging to an Islamic group, hurled rocks at LeMan's headquarters in central Istanbul and scuffled with police. The publication apologized for any offense caused, but it also called on authorities to act against what it described as a smear campaign and to protect freedom of expression. Separate videos of the arrests, shared by Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya, showed Pehlevan and Yavuz being forcibly taken from their homes, their hands being cuffed behind their backs. 'These shameless people will be held accountable before the law,' Yerlikaya wrote on X.
