The Turkish foreign minister and the head of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Friday discussed recent repeated attacks on the Muslim holy book, the Quran.
In a phone call, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and OIC Secretary-General Hussein Ibrahim Taha evaluated the attacks on the holy Quran in Sweden and the Netherlands and the Islamic world's reactions to these attacks, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
On Jan. 21, Rasmus Paludan, an extreme-right Swedish-Danish politician, burned a copy of the holy Quran outside the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm, under police protection and with permission from the authorities, drawing a wave of condemnations from across the Arab and Islamic worlds.
The next day, Edwin Wagensveld, a far-right Dutch politician and leader of the Islamophobic group Pegida, tore out pages from a copy of the holy Quran in The Hague and then burned the pages, and then posted video of the provocation online.
