Turkish artist to be put on trial for renouncing God

A Turkish cartoon artist will be put on trial for a caricature he drew in which he renounced god, Hurrieyt Daily News cites Daily Habertürk .

The Istanbul chief public prosecutor's office charged Bahadır Baruter with "insulting the religious values adopted by a part of the population" and requested his imprisonment for up to one year.

Baruter's caricature depicted an imam and believers praying in a mosque. One of the characters is talking to God on his cellphone and asking to be pardoned from the last part of the prayer because he has errands to run.

Within the wall decorations of the mosque, Baruter hid the words, "There is no Allah, religion is a lie." The cartoon was published in the weekly "Penguen" humor magazine.