(Local) Russian intelligence last year suggested staging Quran burnings, as well as mounting protests and spraying graffiti insulting Turkey’s president, as a way of delaying Turkey’s ratification [of] Sweden’s Nato bid, a Finnish documentary has claimed.
The documentary cites the Dossier Center, a Russian investigative news site, which claims to have been leaked two memos from a Russian intelligence agency discussing possible plans to disrupt relations with Turkey.
“The source was an officer working for Russian security services. I can’t disclose the exact agency, but there was a memo that was leaked to us and in that memo it said, ‘We should burn the Quran,'” Ilja Roždestvenski, Dossier Center’s editor, told Yle, Finland’s public broadcaster.
