Turkish police raided Monday in Istanbul headquarters of a newspaper and seized its latest issue that displayed a front-page photomontage of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan taking a “selfie” in front of the coffin of a soldier killed by Kurdish rebels.

According to its editor Cevheri Güven, the police showed up once in the night outside the offices of Nokta magazine (“The Point” in Turkish).

“The police are on our doorstep. It is 1:30. I think the numbers Nokta will be seized, “wrote Mr. Güven on his Twitter account.

Having found the empty building, they are returned at 8:30 am and seized documents.

The daily Hürriyet published a copy of a decision of the Istanbul prosecutor ordering the search of the headquarters of Nokta, entering its last issue and blocking its Twitter account for “insulting the president” and “terrorist propaganda”. The first page of the magazine consists of a photomontage in which Erdogan takes pictures, smiling, with his cell phone before the coffin of a soldier covered with the Turkish flag.

It illustrates many detractors critical of the Head of State, who accuse him of exploiting the clashes between the army and rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to win the early parliamentary elections from November 1. Recep Erdogan has strongly rejected these allegations.

According Nokta, its one is inspired by a similar photomontage published in 2013 in the Guardian shows that the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair taking a “selfie” before the black smoke from an explosion during the war in Iraq .

Turkish Islamic-conservative government is regularly singled out by the NGO defending the freedom of the press, which blamed its pressure on the media. Many journalists are prosecuted in court for “insulting” the president and, since the beginning of the month, two British journalists and their Dutch colleagues who covered the fighting between the army and Kurdish rebels were expelled.