Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, slammed the latest arson try on a mosque within the Greek-administered a part of the island, Anadolu Information Company experiences.
In line with the report, Erdogan mentioned the assaults on Muslim homes of worship in Cyprus won’t go unanswered.
“We strongly condemn the arson assault in opposition to the Grand Mosque in Larnaca, the Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus,” Erdogan advised reporters on Monday.
Reportedly, the Grand Mosque, positioned initially of Larnaca’s outdated Turkish quarter, was about to be set on fireplace on 2 December.
In line with Greek Cypriot media, no casualty was reported, whereas police detained a minimum of one suspect.
Mosques on the southern a part of Turkish Cypriot Island are sometimes focused in racist assaults, together with vandalism and Molotov cocktail assaults.
Final March, a bunch of far-right Greek Cypriot so-called activists attacked and defaced a mosque in Limassol, drawing a cross and writing “loss of life to all Turks” on its partitions.
