The Norwegian police prohibited this Thursday for security reasons a demonstration called for Friday in which it was planned to burn copies of the Koran, hours after the Turkish government formally expressed a protest against the celebration of such an act.
A police spokesman, Martin Strand, explained that the Norwegian authorities are incapable of guaranteeing the security of the demonstration, so he confirmed the ban on its holding the organization that called it, Sian, which defends the fight against the “Islamization” of Norway. , according to NRK public television.
The Government of Turkey had summoned the Norwegian ambassador to Ankara today on the occasion of this protest, precisely to criticize the Norwegian authorities for not taking measures to avoid a “provocation”.
“It is clearly a hate crime,” official sources allege, quoted by the official Turkish news agency Anatolia.
For its part, the Norwegian government explained to NRK that the ambassador conveyed to his Turkish interlocutors that Friday’s demonstration did not have any institutional support, but, at the same time, he defended that freedom of expression is enshrined in the Constitution.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also accused the Swedish government of “allowing” the burning of the holy book of Islam, which, in the Swedish case, resulted in Turkey’s veto of its intention to join NATO ( North Atlantic Organization Treaty, western defense bloc), pending since May 2022.
Source: TSF
