Protester who set fire to the Koran ‘is being prosecuted for criticising a religion’

An ‘atheist activist’ caught on camera burning the Koran outside the Turkish consulate should not be criminalised for ‘political protest’, a court heard. Hamet Coskun, 50, held the flaming book aloft outside his home country’s embassy building on 13 February 2025. He told police in interview that he was protesting against the Turkish government’s support of radical Islam. A bystander filmed Coskun with the book in his hand and plumes of smoke emerging upwards from it into the sky. He…