The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden Tobias Billstrom responded to the holding of the Promotion of the Koran at the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm.
According to him, although there is a wide freedom of expression in the country, this does not mean that the authorities support all these opinions ..
“Islamofobic provocations are terrible. Sweden has a wide freedom of expression of opinions, but this does not mean that the Sweden government or I support the opinions expressed,” Billstroem wrote on Twitter.
amid negotiations on the ratification of Turkey, an agreement on Sweden entering the NATO burning the Qur’an became the reason for the deterioration of the relations of Ankara and Stockholm.
On Saturday, January 21, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said that Sweden violated its obligations to Ankara under the membership of NATO. The foreign policy department also decisively condemned the action of the burning of the Qur’an in Stockholm in front of the Turkish embassy, noting that they did not see the Sweden of the Steps to combat terrorism.
According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Mevlyut Cavusoglu, which previously published by Anadolu, “do not allow any other book or attacks on another religion in Sweden, but as soon as it comes to the Qur’an, they immediately refer to some rights and freedoms of citizens.” Chavushoglu emphasized that no one has the right to justify the anti -Islamic provocation “manifestation of freedom of speech.”
The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, in his telegram channel, also commented on the holding to the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm with the burning of the Qur’an. In his opinion, the event was actually “approved and paid by political forces.” “In the Swedish Stockholm, some scum, which is part-time as the leader of the Danish Satanist Party, burned the sacred Qur’an in front of the Turkish embassy. … In fact, only obsessed with the devil, the most frostbitten villains are able to encroach on the holy values, calling it a sign of protest,”- Kadyrov wrote.
The public burning of the Qur’an in front of the Turkish embassy was held by the leader of the Tight Course party Rasmus Paludan. He criticized NATO, Turkey, and also demonstrated the caricature of the Prophet Muhammad. Ankara condemned the holding of the action and called it the “open violation” of the Memorandum about joining NATO. Turkey against this background canceled the visit of the Minister of Defense of Sweden. Stockholm, in turn, said that he does not support Islamophobia, but the country has a “wide freedom of opinion”