YESTERDAY Hamit Coskun, a Kurdish-Armenian asylum-seeker from Turkey, was convicted of a criminal offence for burning a copy of the Koran outside the Turkish Consulate in London. A committed atheist and former political prisoner, he was protesting against the ‘Islamist government’ of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whom he accused of turning the country into ‘a base for extremism’ when he was arrested. He was charged […]