Four staff at the satirical Turkish magazine LeMan have been arrested after being accused of inciting public hatred with a controversial cartoon.

The cartoon, published in LeMan magazine, was denounced by government officials who said it represented the Prophet Muhammad.

Turkish authorities on Monday detained three cartoonists over a satirical drawing published by weekly magazine Leman that seemed to depict Prophets Moses and Muhammad shaking hands in the sky, while missiles flew below in a scene resembling war.