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Turkey Expected Sweden To Prevent Planned Quran Burning In Stockholm - Foreign Minister
Muhammad Irfan Published January 21, 2023 | 07:39 PM
Turkey expected the Swedish government to take steps to prevent the planned burning of the Quran outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm on Saturday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said
ANKARA (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 21st January, 2023) Turkey expected the Swedish government to take steps to prevent the planned burning of the Quran outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm on Saturday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said.
Media reported on Friday that leader of the far-right Danish political party Stram Kurs, Rasmus Paludan, had received permission to burn a copy of the Quran, islam's holy book, in front of the Turkish embassy in Stockholm. The protest was supposed to start at 2 p.m. local time (13:00 GMT) on Saturday.
"No one can call it freedom of speech and expression. Racism and hatred cannot be called freedom of expression ... We hope that Sweden will take appropriate measures to prevent this protest from being held," Cavusoglu told reporters.
The Turkish top diplomat added that Ankara had taken "appropriate steps" upon learning about the scheduled protest. In particular, the Turkish Foreign Ministry summoned the Swedish ambassador in connection with the matter, while the Turkish ambassador held a meeting with Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom.
Earlier on Saturday, Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin also condemned the planned protest, calling it "a hateful crime against humanity.
" The official accused the Swedish authorities of greenlighting the action, which, as Ankara believes, encourages "hate crimes and Islamophobia."
"Attacking sacred values is not freedom but modern barbarism," Kalin tweeted.
Earlier in January, the supporters of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), labeled as terrorist in Ankara, held a demonstration in the Swedish capital, hanging an effigy of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan by its feet. The Turkish Foreign Ministry summoned the Swedish ambassador to Ankara in protest of the PKK rally. In addition, the Turkish Prosecutor General's Office opened a criminal case in connection with the demonstration.
On January 15, Erdogan said that Sweden and Finland needed to extradite about 130 terrorists to Turkey if they wanted the Turkish parliament to ratify their NATO bids. On Saturday, Turkey unilaterally canceled the upcoming visit of Swedish Defense Minister Pal Jonson to Ankara, where he was supposed to discuss Stockholm's application for NATO membership.
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