Monitoring Desk
ANKARA: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that Western missions would “pay” for issuing security alerts and temporarily closing consulates in the country last week, media reported on Sunday. Police said that there was no threat to foreigner citizens following detaining fifteen Daesh suspects.
Western Missions and Turkish President
Earlier, Turkey summoned the envoys of 9 nations on Thursday to denounce their decisions to temporarily close down diplomatic missions and issue security warning. Officials in Turkey said after the day Western countries, including the US and Germany, had not shared information to support their claims of a security issue.
President Erdogan told media persons that the other day their foreign ministry summoned all of Western envoys and gave the ultimatum, told them that they will pay for this if “you keep this up,”.
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Several Western nations warned their citizens of a risk of potential attacks to diplomatic missions and non-Muslim places of worship in Turkey, after far-right protests in Europe in recent days that included several incidents of burning copies of the Holy Qur’an.
Ankara also suspended talks for Sweden and Finland’s NATO agreement last month after a protest in Stockholm during which a copy of the Holy Qur’an was burned.
