The Turkish Foreign Ministry protested a demonstration outside the Turkish embassy and a mosque in Copenhagen
The Danish ambassador in Ankara was summoned today to the foreign ministry, which protested a demonstration outside the Turkish embassy and a mosque in Copenhagen.
The ambassador’s summons was decided when “we learned that permission was given for an attack against our holy book, the Koran, today in Denmark,” a diplomatic source told the press.
“It has been conveyed to the ambassador that we strongly condemn the permission (given) to this provocative act, which clearly constitutes a hate crime,” this source said.
Last weekend, the same Swedish far-right Rasmus Paludan was given permission to demonstrate in front of the Turkish embassy in Stockholm and then burned a copy of the Koran in the presence of the police. Its purpose was to protest Turkey’s veto of Sweden and Finland’s entry into NATO.
According to AFP journalists in Copenhagen, the man repeated his act today by burning a copy of the Koran in front of a mosque in the Danish capital.
He said he wanted to burn at least one copy today in front of the Turkish embassy.
A large police cordon was deployed in front of the targeted sites, Agence France-Presse said.
The far-right said he would continue to protest “every week” until Turkey lifted the veto allowing Sweden to join NATO.
After the first incidents provoked hostile reactions in the Muslim world, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that Sweden could no longer count on Turkey’s “support” to join the Alliance.
Negotiations are officially suspended.
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