MOSCOW (AA) – Head of the Russian upper chamber of parliament called on members of European parliaments on Saturday to publicly condemn the incidents of desecration of the Quran. In a post on Telegram, Valentina Matvienko said Russian lawmakers voiced strong protest against the recent Islamophobic actions in Sweden and the Netherlands. &...
ANKARA (AA) – Criticizing the recent closure of some Western consulates in Istanbul, Türkiye’s top diplomat has called the move “deliberate.” He added that the countries involved had not shared any information about what they called “security reasons.” “We think this was deliberate,” said Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu a...
BERLIN (AA) – Berlin Justice Senator Lena Kreck of the Left Party wants to change the so-called neutrality law, which blanketly bans female teachers from wearing headscarves, as soon as possible. “The fact that criticism of the constitutionality of Berlin’s neutrality law is justified has now also been confirmed by the Federa...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Establishing a union of Serb municipalities in Kosovo is not possible and Serbia should pay compensation for the 1999 war, Kosovo’s prime minister has said. Addressing the parliament on Wednesday, Albin Kurti said 93 percent of Kosovo population was 93% although it is a multi-ethnic state. “The formation of ...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – Spain and Morocco have signed 20 agreements that, according to Spain’s premier, “consolidate a new era of mutual trust and genuine cooperation like it’s never existed before.” Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and 11 of his ministers met with their Moroccan counterparts on Thursday to “establish the bases for the type [...
ANKARA (AA) – Norway cancelled its permission to burn the Quran, Islam’s holy book, after Ankara warned against it, Türkiye’s foreign minister said on Thursday. Speaking at an event in the Turkish capital Ankara, Mevlut Cavusoglu said that the acceleration of globalization and change has lead to hate crimes, Islamophobia, racism, xenopho...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye summoned the Norwegian Ambassador in Ankara Erling Skjonsberg over reported plans to desecrate the holy Quran in the Scandinavian country on Friday, according to Turkish diplomatic sources. “Upon learning that there will be an attack against our holy book, the Quran, in Norway tomorrow, the Norwegian ambassado...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Ethnic Albanian Kosovars have expressed their opposition to Prime Minister Albin Kurti’s plan to establish the Union of Serbian Municipalities. A protest was staged in front of the Prime Minister’s Office in Pristina against the European Union’s proposal for the formation of the Union of Serbian ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Hate speech in Denmark benefited from “police protection” under “the name of freedom of expression,” says the latest report of the Council of Europe’s anti-racism commission ECRI. The report was released amid furor over recent Islamophobic acts by Danish-Swedish politician Rasmus Paludan, leader of...
STOCKHOLM (AA) – Police in Finland have said the public burning of Islam’s holy book would not be allowed in the country. The National Police Board said that burning a copy of the Quran would likely violate religious peace, which is a punishable offence in Finland. The public burning or other desecration of a book […]
