Turkiye summons nine western ambassador over security alert!

Quran-burning incidents in Europe...

Turkiye summoned ambassadors along with nine countries, including the United States and Sweden, on Thursday to temporarily shut diplomatic missions to criticize their decision and issue security alerts following Quran-burning incidents in Europe, Reuters reported. 

According to Foreign Ministry sources in Ankara, the envoys of Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Britain were also summoned. 

Quran Muslims holy book, was burned in Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands past two weeks, by far-right activists, which prompted Turkiye to rise objections in joining Sweden and Finland in NATO. 

"A new psychological war", Turkish interior Minister, Süleyman Soylu accused the embassies of waging against the Turkiye on the same day when a target has set by Ankara to attract 60 million tourists annually.

Warnings were issued to the citizens of an increased risk of attacks in Turkiye over the last week, by France, Germany, Italy, and the United States particularly against diplomatic missions and non-Muslims places of worship.

This week due to security reasons, Germany, France and the Netherlands temporarily closed diplomatic missions in Turkiye. Some areas of central Istanbul are of high concern, but the source of information is not provided.

Such simultaneous activities do not constitute a proportional and commonsense approach and … only occurred to serve the agenda of terrorist organizations," said a Foreign Ministry source.

A copy of Quran was burned recently in front of a mosque in Stockholm by the Danish-Swedish far-right politician, and even threatened to continue every week until Turkiye will agreed to Sweden's accession to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

All 30 NATO members must approve newcomers. Last year Sweden and Finland has applied for membership in the face of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but surprisingly ran into resistance from Turkiye.

Since then, they have sought to win its backing, including agreeing to take a harder line domestically against those Turkiye says are members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, the PKK, designated a terrorist group by Ankara and the European Union.