Updated 16:09 | Published at 3:56 p.m
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan condemns today’s Koran burning outside a mosque in Stockholm.
“It is unacceptable to allow these anti-Islamic acts under the pretext of freedom of expression,” he writes on Twitter.
He also writes: “To tolerate such terrible acts is to be complicit.”
The statement comes after a Koran was burned at Medborgarplatsen in central Stockholm on Wednesday. The action had been granted a demonstration permit by the police.
President Erdogan’s security adviser Akif Cagatay Kilic is also critical of the Koran burning.
“Such Islamophobic heinous acts under the guise of freedom of thought and expression are never acceptable. I condemn all people and institutions that allow this!”, he writes, among other things, on his Twitter.