Arson attack on Turkish Embassy in Finland; no serious injuries

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Finnish police said a Turkish Embassy employee was injured in an arson attack on the embassy building in central Helsinki early on Tuesday morning. Officers said the front door of the embassy in the Finnish capital was burned in the attack and the fire spread indoors before it was extinguished by fire fighters. An embassy worker was treated for smoke inhalation. The early morning attack came hours after a peaceful anti-Turkey protest late Monday outside the embassy by a few dozen Kurdish demonstrators. Police spokesman Jussi Huhtela said that four men, some of them of a Turkish-Kurdish background, have been detained on suspicion of the attack. The attack could have been politically motivated, Huhtela said.