Scores of people protested in Istanbul on Thursday against Cumhuriyet newspaper, which published a selection of cartoons from the latest issue of French satirical newspaper, Charlie Hebdo.

Protesters chanted "God is great," and called for those who published the caricatures of Prophet Mohammed to be punished.

Cumhuriyet newspaper, a secular Turkish daily, printed the four-page selection of cartoons and articles on Wednesday.

They included caricatures of Pope Francis and French President Francois Hollande - but left out cartoons likely to offend Muslims.

However, two Cumhuriyet columnists, Ceyda Karan and Hikmet Cetinkaya, used small, black-and-white images of the new Charlie Hebdo cover as their column headers.

The cover of the Paris-based publication featured a weeping Muhammad, Islam's revered prophet, holding a sign reading "I am Charlie" with the words "All is forgiven" above him.

Journalist Ahmet Ozkose, present at Thursday's protest, accused the pair of behaving "viciously and immorally" for including the small, black-and-white images.

Turkey was rare among Muslim-majority nations to have publications running Charlie Hebdo images.

But the decision has raised tensions in the officially secular country.

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Istanbul - 15 January 2015

1. Protesters chanting UPSOUND: (Arabic): "God is great!"

2. Protester holding banner reading: (Turkish) "May my mother and my father be a sacrifice to you, dear Messenger (the Prophet)"

3. Protesters chanting UPSOUND: (Turkish) "Ceyda (Karan), Hikmet (Cetinkaya) will be held to account"

4. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Ahmet Ozkose, journalist:

"Ceyda Karan and Hikmet Cetinkaya behaved viciously and immorally by publishing a caricature, which is claimed to be the Messenger, in their columns in Cumhuriyet newspaper."

5. Protesters chanting UPSOUND: (Turkish) "Attacks on the Messenger will be punished!"

6. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Sumeyya Ocal, protester:

"Our red line is the Prophet. Islam has an understanding of glorifying all the prophets of other religions. It was said that is was done under 'freedom of the press' or 'freedom of expression', but this is not good faith. It was done as an insult, and it has continued for years."

7. Protesters chanting UPSOUND: (Arabic): "God is great!"

8. Turkish flag and Islamist flags