Turkey on Friday rejected the "map of Islam" drawn up by the Austrian government to locate mosques and Islamic institutions on Austrian soil, in a move Islamic organizations said contributes to stigmatizing Muslims in the country.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement that "the presentation by the Minister of Integration Susanne Raab of a map detailing all Islamic institutions in Austria is unacceptable." The ministry urged Vienna not to "prepare a register of Muslims", but to adopt a "responsible policy".

The Austrian government's interactive website published the "National Map of Islam", which identifies the names and locations of more than 600 mosques, institutions and associations, as well as officials and their potential links, and was prepared in cooperation with the University of Vienna and the Center for Documentation of Political Islam.

But this initiative worried many Austrian Muslims, as the Green Party, partner in the government coalition with the center-right ruling party, distanced itself from it.

Raab stressed that the purpose of the map "is not to put Muslims in general in doubt", but rather to "confront political beliefs, not religion."

Since jihadists carried out an attack that killed four people in Vienna last November, the first of its kind to be carried out in Austria, an increase in verbal and physical attacks against Muslims in the country has been reported.

The Muslim Representative Council of Austria said that the map "shows the government's clear intent to brand all Muslims as a potential danger," and complained of "increasing racism against Muslims."