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 “keep away from crowds and demonstrations.”

Danish-Swedish lawyer, Rasmus Paludan, who heads the Stram Kurs (Exhausting Line) celebration in Denmark, torched a complete of three copies of the Islamic holy guide on Friday.

Paludan stated he was doing so in “disgust on the ideology and faith of Islam.” The activist additionally stated 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.” 

Immediately, the Unites States Embassy in Turkey issued a brand new, up to date safety warning, alerting US residents of attainable violent assaults towards locations of warship and diplomatic missions.

Based on right now’s warning from the US diplomatic mission, Individuals, at present in Turkey, ought to pay attention to “attainable imminent retaliatory assaults by terrorists” that would happen within the places frequented by Westerners, significantly 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 “attainable Islamophobic, xenophobic and racist assaults” in the USA and Europe.

Turkey’s international ministry had issued two separate journey alerts, advising Turkish residents within the US and Europe to “act calmly within the face of attainable…harassment and assaults” and to “avoid areas the place demonstrations could intensify.”

Present surge in “anti-Islam and racist acts” demonstrates the damaging spike of non secular intolerance and hatred within the West, the ministry added.