Police have pressed charges against a man in Turkey after he held a sign containing a New York Times caricature featuring President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan cutting döner kebab — a Turkish dish — which was pictured as a Turkish flag that read “democracy,” in a demonstration on Friday.

Ali Bayram Hanedar was outside of the Samsun Courthouse among a crowd protesting the Dec. 14 media crackdown that resulted in detention of journalists, including Zaman daily Editor-in-Chief Ekrem Dumanlı. Hanedar was holding aloft a banner with a caricature recently published by The New York Times, which shows Erdoğan trimming “Turkey’s democracy,” depicted as a döner kebab, with a blade in his hand.

According to a news report by the Bugün daily, after the demonstration Hanedar was stopped by a policeman, who asked his identity and said there would be charges pressed against him. The policeman explained that the protester’s banner would be examined to see if its display fits the crime of “insulting the Turkish flag.”