Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson called on the Turkish authorities to return to reasonable rhetoric in talks on Sweden’s NATO membership on January 31 at a press conference after discussing the security situation in the country with parliamentary parties.
“The most important thing we can do now is partly to clarify that it was not Sweden that hung a doll (similar to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan) and burned the Koran, and partly to return to a reasonable negotiating climate.”he said.
The Swedish Prime Minister explained that these actions had significant consequences for Sweden’s image outside the country.
“We have seen how individual Swedish demonstrations can have serious consequences for the image of Sweden in the world, for the security of our subjects abroad. What is legal and should be legal in Sweden can have serious consequences.”.
Remember that Sweden applied to join NATO, but Turkey blocked the request. Recently, a scandal broke out between Turkey and Sweden because on January 21, at a rally authorized by the authorities near the Turkish embassy, the leader of the far-right Hard Course party, Rasmus Paludan, burned the Koran. .
Also in mid-January, at a demonstration organized by the Kurdish Democratic Public Center in support of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), protesters near Stockholm City Hall hung a doll representing Erdogan upside down.
After Rdogan said that Sweden should not expect Ankara to support its application to join NATO.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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