The Istanbul governor’s office late on Wednesday said that Macias’s performance scheduled for Friday evening in the city has been banned “after intense calls for protests against the concert.”

ENRICO MACIAS.Turkish authorities have banned a concert of Enrico Macias, a French singer of Algerian-Jewish origin, after calls for protest over his pro-Israeli stance.

The 86-year-old is one of French Jewry’s best-known personalities. The crooner has performed in Israel numerous times, including arriving during the Six Day War and the Yom Kippur War; in the latter, he joined the forces that crossed the Suez Canal.

The Istanbul governor’s office late on Wednesday said that Macias’s performance scheduled for Friday evening in the city has been banned “after intense calls for protests against the concert.”

Such protests would place protesters “in an unjust position legally and cause grievances,” the office said in a statement. Any protests around the concert venue in Istanbul’s Sisli district on Friday were also banned by the governorMacias’s achievements

Over the past 60 years, Macias has sold millions of records and performed all over the world, including a historic concert in Moscow’s Red Square attended by an audience of 120,000 people.