 The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ( OIC ) and Arab League also wrote a joint letter to the Prime Minister expressing alarm about the cartoons and other recent incidents and insults committed by Danish politicians . The Muslim countries continued to work diplomatically to try to have the issue — and the other issues mentioned in their initial letter — addressed by the Danish government . Turkey and Egypt were particularly active . Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Copenhagen in November in an encounter which the Turkish press described as a crisis . Erdogan clashed with Rasmussen over the cartoons as well as <unk> TV — a television station affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers ' Party — being allowed to broadcast from Denmark . After trying to engage the Danish government diplomatically , Egyptian foreign minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit and the secretary @-@ generals of the OIC and the Arab League sent letters to the OSCE , OECD , and EU foreign policy coordinator complaining about Danish inaction . 
