3 Times Burns Of The Qur'an, Turkey Summons Danish Envoy

Illustration of protests against the burning of the Qur'an. (Wikimedia Commons/Tasnim News Agency/Mighdad Madadi)

JAKARTA - Turkey's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday, August 23 summoned a business attorney for Denmark in Ankara over repeated incidents of blasphemy in the holy book Al Quran, a Turkish diplomatic source said. "As a result of the incident of burning the Quran in front of our Embassy and the Muslim Embassy in Copenhagen, the Danish power force in Ankara was again summoned by the Turkish ministry today," said a source who asked for his identity to be kept secret, quoted from Anadolu via Antara, Thursday, August 24. The summons was made after the burning of the Quran in Copenhagen three times. Turkey has previously summoned the Danish envoy twice this week for blasphemy against the Quran.

A number of Islamophobic figures and groups in Northern Europe have frequently burned the Quran and similar efforts in recent months to denounce the holy book of Muslims, which has drawn the anger of Muslim countries and the rest of the world.