Norway withdraws permission for Quran burning
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, xenophobia, intolerance, and discrimination, he added.
“You saw what happened in Sweden, the Netherlands and Denmark. The same thing was going to happen in Norway. Today, we summoned the Norwegian ambassador. And they withdrew the permission they granted,” Cavusoglu said.
“Crime against humanity is not freedom of expression. This is a hate crime. Hate is not freedom of expression,” the top diplomat stressed.
Earlier on Thursday, Türkiye summoned Norwegian Ambassador in Ankara, Erling Skjonsberg, over plans to desecrate the holy Quran in the Scandinavian country on Friday.
Skjonsberg was told that Ankara strongly condemns Norway’s approach not to prevent the planned provocative act, which is “clearly a hate crime, this attitude is unacceptable and we expect this act not to be allowed,” according to the Turkish diplomatic sources.
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