Demonstration against Charlie Hebdo in Istanbul

(ANSA) - ISTANBUL, 13 SEPT - About 200 people in Istanbul demonstrated on Sunday against the decision of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo to republish the cartoons on Mohammed that triggered the terrorist massacre in 2015.

    The magazine has decided to republish the drawings to mark the beginning of the trial of alleged accomplices in the massacre in which 12 people were killed, including some of the most famous French cartoonists.

    'Charlie Hebdo and Macron will pay a heavy price' and 'France is a terrorist state', was written on some folders waved by the demonstrators gathered in Beyazit square, in the European part of Istanbul. The Turkish foreign ministry has condemned the decision to republish the cartoons "which lack respect for our religion and our prophet". (HANDLE).