Prime Minister Ahmed Davutoğlu has strongly criticized the reprinting of the Charlie Hebdo cartoon featuring the Prophet Muhammad, saying freedom of expression "doesn’t give anybody the right to insult another’s beliefs".
"Freedom of the press does not mean freedom to insult. In particular, if it is an insult against a Prophet who has been a ‘mercy to the worlds,’ and who has a much greater meaning than our personalities and characters, this is not freedom of the press," said Davutoğlu, Hurriyet daily news reports.