Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday reacted strongly to the fact that a day ago in the capital of Sweden, Stockholm, a new incident occurred with the burning of a copy of the Koran, the holy book of Muslims, Reuters reports.

“We will teach the peoples of the arrogant West that insulting the sacred values ​​of Muslims is not freedom of speech,” he told members of his own AK party on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr.

He added that Turkey would have the “strongest possible reaction” to what he called a “humiliating protest”.

A day earlier, his new foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, condemned the protest and said it was unacceptable to allow anti-Islamic demonstrations in the name of freedom of speech.

The comments by two Turkish officials came after a man allowed by Swedish police to stage a protest outside Stockholm’s central mosque on Thursday afternoon began ripping out pages from a copy of the Koran, wiping off his shoes and his lard before setting it on fire. a book

Meanwhile, the second organizer spoke into a megaphone.

There is less and less hope that Sweden will be accepted into NATO at next month’s summit

Police have charged the first person with violating a ban on burning sacred books as a form of protest introduced in Stockholm in mid-month, as Sweden’s government hopes Turkey will lift its objections to the country’s NATO membership before the Vilnius summit. held in July.

Although Swedish police have recently rejected several requests to allow anti-Islam demonstrations, the courts have invalidated these decisions, saying they violate freedom of speech.

The previous protest, which led to the burning of the Koran in Stockholm, took place on January 21. This incident was called by Turkish President Recep Erdogan as a new reason for his country to oppose Sweden’s membership in NATO.

It later turned out that the copy of the Koran was set on fire by a far-right Swedish journalist and politician with ties to Russian state media. In early February, the Swedish police prevented another attempt to set fire to the Koran, the holy book of Muslims, in front of the Turkish embassy in Stockholm.

Also on Wednesday, Hungary again postponed the ratification of Sweden’s accession to the alliance, and a vote on this issue before the parliamentary recess is now out of the question.

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