Turkey Condemns Quran Protest in the Netherlands

ISTANBUL (AP) Turkeys foreign ministry said Tuesday it summoned the Dutch ambassador following a demonstration targeting Islams holy book, days after a similar protest in Sweden tensed relations.

Edwin Wagensveld, Dutch leader of the far-right Pegida movement in the Netherlands, on Sunday tore pages out of a copy of the Quran near the Dutch parliament and stomped on the pages. Police looked on but did not intervene.

It is about freedom of expression and I think that should be possible in the Netherlands, Wagensveld said in a video posted on the site of Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad.