Turkish Prosecutors Launch Probe Into Quran-burning Danish, Dutch Politicians
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published February 01, 2023 | 03:20 PM
ANKARA, Feb 1 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 1st Feb, 2023 ) :Turkish prosecutors on Wednesday launched an investigation into Islamophobic Danish and Dutch politicians on charges of inciting public enmity and insulting religious values.
The move came after Danish-Swedish extremist Rasmus Paludan last week burned copies of the Quran on two separate occasions, first outside the Turkish Embassy in Sweden and then later in front of a mosque in Denmark.
Edwin Wagensveld, a far-right Dutch politician and leader of the Islamophobic group Pegida, also tore out pages from a copy of the Quran in The Hague and then burned its torn-out pages in a pan, as posted in internet video.
"The suspects in question committed acts of publicly inciting public hatred and enmity against the holy values ??of the Islamic religion, the Quran, and the Prophet of islam, and openly insulted the religious values ??espoused by a section of the people," said a statement on the investigation by prosecutors in Ankara, the Turkish capital.
The provocations drew protests and outrage across the Islamic world, with T�rkiye questioning how police permitted the protests and took no action to stop them, instead claiming the desecration fell under "freedom of speech."
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