The Dutch ambassador to Ankara was summoned by the Turkish foreign minister on Tuesday after an Islamophobic activist desecrated a copy of the Koran in The Hague, the Turkish ministry announced.
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Our ministry strongly expressed our condemnation and protest against this heinous and despicable act and demanded that the Netherlands not allow such provocative acts
," the statement said.
repeated act
A Dutch leader of the Islamophobic movement Pegida was filmed alone on Sunday tearing pages from a copy of the Koran near the seat of the lower house of the Dutch parliament, before trampling them.
According to Dutch public television NOS, however, the local police prevented him from burning the holy book of Muslims.
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On Saturday, the burning of a Koran by another anti-Islam extremist during a demonstration - authorized by the police - near the Turkish embassy in Stockholm had already sparked strong protests from Ankara.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday that Sweden, a candidate for NATO membership, could no longer count on the "
support
" of Ankara after this incident.
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