US Embassy in Istanbul points a brand new, up to date safety warning, alerting US residents of attainable violent assaults
Late final week, a number of western diplomatic missions in Turkey, together with the US, German, French and Italian embassies, issued safety alerts for his or her residents, warning about attainable retaliatory assaults after the Koran-burning incidents in Sweden, Netherlands and Denmark, and advising the westerners to “avoid crowds and demonstrations.”
Danish-Swedish lawyer, Rasmus Paludan, who heads the Stram Kurs (Hard Line) social gathering in Denmark, torched a complete of three copies of the Islamic holy e-book on Friday.
Paludan mentioned he was doing so in “disgust at the ideology and religion of Islam.” The activist additionally mentioned he would proceed burning Korans in entrance of the Turkish diplomatic mission within the Danish capital till Ankara consents to Sweden’s accession to NATO.
Turkish embassy in Copenhagen condemned Paludan’s protest as a “hate crime.”
Today, the Unites States Embassy in Turkey issued a brand new, up to date safety warning, alerting US residents of attainable violent assaults in opposition to locations of warship and diplomatic missions.
According to in the present day’s warning from the US diplomatic mission, Americans, at present in Turkey, ought to concentrate on “possible imminent retaliatory attacks by terrorists” that might happen within the areas frequented by Westerners, notably Istanbul‘s Beyoglu, Galata, Taksim, and Istiklal districts.
Turkish authorities have been knowledgeable about attainable assault risks and are investigating the matter, the embassy added.
Turkey, in flip, has warned its residents over the weekend about “possible Islamophobic, xenophobic and racist attacks” within the United States and Europe.
Turkey’s international ministry had issued two separate journey alerts, advising Turkish residents within the US and Europe to “act calmly in the face of possible…harassment and attacks” and to “stay away from areas where demonstrations may intensify.”
Current surge in “anti-Islam and racist acts” demonstrates the damaging spike of non secular intolerance and hatred within the West, the ministry added.
