Born, Sweden further and further away. The burning of the Koran infuriates Erdogan
Continue there uphill road for Sweden in the NATO accession process. And to put the veto it’s always there Turkey, given that the summit between representatives of Ankara, Sweden and Finland scheduled for February was postponed precisely at the request of the former. The agreement between the two countries at the moment seems distant, especially after one copy of the Koran was burned in front of the Turkish embassy to Stockholm from Rasmus Paluden, Danish politician with Swedish citizenship, leader of the far-right party Stram Kurs (Hard Line ed.). “Who does not respect sacred values do not expect our support to join NATO”, Turkish president Recep Tayyip thundered just yesterday, 25 January Erdogan. The latest in a series of compact reactions against the Stockholm government, guilty of having authorized the burning of the sacred book and for this reason ended up in the crosshairs of criticism.
THE relationships between Sweden and Turkey they had cracked already after a demonstration in favor of the Kurdish separatists of the PKK was staged in the Swedish capital on 11 January; then there was the episode of an Erdogan mannequin hanging upside down. The stake of the Koran has ended up weighing further on an extremely delicate situation, to the point of extinguishing the last remaining hopes that Erdogan will now lift his veto on enlargement.
Born, Sweden further and further away. Finland contemplates accession alone
In order to convince Turkey to lift its veto on enlargement, the two aspiring NATO member countries, Sweden and Finland, had pledged to ban demonstrations and fundraising in support of the PKK and to extradite terrorists to Turkey whose handover Ankara is asking. Now, the closure of the Arab country resulting from the burning of the Koran has pushed the Finnish authorities to fulfill a partial march back from what has been said so far: for Helsinki, the option of joining NATO without Sweden is now a possibility that is gaining ground.
Erdogan’s spokesman, Ibrahim Kalin had spoken of “6 months” for Stockholm to change the laws on demonstrations, but his words had been pronounced before the stake of the Korandefined by the councilor himself “hate crimeIt is currently impossible for the Turkish government to compromise before the elections which will most likely take place in May.
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