In an announcement issued on Saturday, the Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the desecration of the Quran and the Turkish flag in Denmark.
Denouncing the late Friday incident as a “hate crime,” the Foreign Ministry mentioned Ankara won’t ever settle for such “vile actions being allowed under the guise of freedom of expression.”
The ministry urged Danish authorities to take fast motion in opposition to the perpetrators and concrete measures to stop additional provocations that threaten social concord and peaceable coexistence.
The ministry famous that the act quantities to a hate crime and shows the worrying degree of anti-Muslim hatred, discrimination, and xenophobia in Europe.
The far-right anti-Muslim group Patrioterne Gar Live displayed Islamophobic banners and desecrated the Quran and the Turkish flag in entrance of the Turkish Embassy in Copenhagen. The far-right group additionally broadcast it stay on their Facebook web page.
In January, ultranationalist, far-right extremist, and racist politician Rasmus Paludan additionally burnt a duplicate of the Quran in entrance of a mosque in Copenhagen. Türkiye summoned the Danish ambassador over the incident.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
