Buring the Quran ‘risks sparking public disorder’

An activist who burned the Quran in front of the Turkish consulate risked sparking public disorder, a court heard. Hamet Coskun, 51, held the burning text aloft outside his home country’s embassy building on 13 February. Coskun told police he was protesting against the Turkish government’s support of radical Islam and claimed his relatives had been murdered in the Armenian genocide. A bystander filmed Coskun with the book in his hand and plumes of smoke emerging upwards from it into…