(NL Times) Turkey has summoned the Dutch ambassador over a recent protest with the Koran in The Hague. Edwin Wagensveld of the anti-Islam group Pegida tore up a Koran in front of the temporary Tweede Kamer building on Sunday.
“We condemn and protest this heinous and despicable act,” Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The authorities demand that the Netherlands not allow such “provocative actions.”
The ministry also referred to a Koran burning by right-wing extremists in Sweden last week. These hate crimes insult Turkey’s “sacred values,” the ministry said. “This makes clear that Islamophobia, discrimination, and xenophobia know no borders in Europe.”
