Quran-burning: Turkey’s Erdogan says no help for Sweden’s NATO bids | World Information

AP | | Posted by Lingamgunta Nirmitha Rao

Turkey’s president stated Monday Sweden shouldn’t anticipate help for NATO membership following weekend protests in Stockholm by an anti-Islam activist and pro-Kurdish teams.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan slammed Rasmus Paludan’s Quran-burning protest on Saturday, saying it was an insult to everybody, particularly to Muslims. He additionally criticized Swedish authorities for permitting the demonstration to happen outdoors the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm.

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Erdogan additionally criticized Sweden for pro-Kurdish protests the place demonstrators waved flags of varied Kurdish teams, together with the Kurdistan Staff’ Social gathering, or PKK, which has waged a decades-long insurgency in opposition to Turkey. The PKK is taken into account a terrorist group in Turkey, the European Union and america, however its symbols aren’t banned in Sweden.

“So you’ll let terror organizations run wild after which anticipate our help for entering into NATO. That’s not occurring,” Erdogan stated, referring to Sweden and Finland’s accession bids for the army alliance. He stated if Sweden received’t present respect to Turkey or Muslims, then “they received’t see any help from us on the NATO problem.”

Turkey has been holding up the Nordic nations’ historic NATO bids.

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