Turkish newspaper, Cumhuriyet Daily, in support for Charlie Hebdo recently announced that they would reprint parts of the magazine that has caused an uproar in the Islamic world. This has caused tensions to rise due to Turkey being home to a population of very devout Muslims.

Evidently, the Turkish news agency was forced to stop printing Charlie Hebdo work due to police intervention.

Overnight after the announcement the Cumhuriyet Daily received a swarm of threats, some very severe death threats.

After the threats started flowing in, mayor of Ankara tweeted that this was a ploy of Cumhuriyet Daily to portray the Muslims as violent. He accused them of being part of an international plot to provoke Muslims to attack newspaper headquarters, playing victim and inciting further animosity against the Muslims all around the world.

The local police raided the agency made sure the "crime" could not be committed, they also made sure that there were no caricatures of Mohammad printed.

Cumhuriyet already has a terrible history with Muslim extremist, having 8 of their journalist killed by a suicide bombings and assassinations in the previous year.

Freedom of speech is still a very big problem in Turkey, with many journalist suffering physical or legal consequences for speaking out against religious and political figures.

One cartoonist, currently on trial is to expect a 9 year prison sentence for his contributions in the last few months for his drawings in the newspaper. He had given the statement "If I must go to prison for exercising the duties of free press, then so be it,"

Even so in the face of such adversity Cumhuriyet Daily's editor-in-chief has declared a published a statement regarding today's Charlie Hebdo issue:

"Cumhuriyet has lost writers to terror attacks in the past, and therefore understands very well the pain of the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

We have condemned this attack on the freedom of expression in the most severe manner. We have displayed our solidarity in our news reports and commentary. As part of our solidarity with Charlie Hebdo, we feature a 4-page selection from its special edition in our newspaper today.

In preparing this selection, in light of our editorial code, we took the freedom of belief and religious sensitivities of all societies into consideration. Cumhuriyet will continue to defend the freedom of expression with all its strength as it always has.

Following broad debate and consultation, we did not include the cover of the magazine in our selection."