A group of young people in southeastern Türkiye distributes roses in churches in response to Saturday’s Quran burning by a Swedish-Danish politician in Sweden
Islam is such a religion that it revives even those who come to kill you," Ibrahim Halil Yetim said.
Young people in the central Artuklu district of Mardin province toured churches on Sunday with roses in hand, handing them out to church officials and condemning the burning of the Quran outside the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm on Saturday.He said that, as young Muslims, they thought about how to react to the incident in Sweden and decided to follow the advice of Islam's Prophet Muhammad by visiting churches and expressing their reactions in a way befitting their religion.
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