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Monday, February 06, 2006

Around the world, the storm gathers force

"Around the world, the storm gathers force

(Daily Mail Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)IN Muslim and non-Muslim countries alike, the fury raged unabated yesterday.

TURKEY: Some 300 ultra-nationalist Turks marched to the Danish consulate in Istanbul.

The protesters hurled eggs at the building and burned a Danish flag. In a separate protest, also in Istanbul, 2,000 shouted slogans and burned an effigy of the Danish premier.

The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country approved neither the publishing of the cartoons nor the violent demonstrations staged in protest."

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