A protest erupted in entrance of the Swedish consulate in Istanbul on Saturday in response to a right-wing politician who earlier set hearth to the Qoran at a rally in Stockholm.
The Qoran is thought to be the phrase of God in Islam and any assault on it's deeply offensive to Muslims.
Turkey known as it a 'vile' act.
What has upset Turkey simply as a lot is that Swedish authorities apparently allowed Rasmus Paludan to burn the Qoran whereas the police and media regarded on.
The Scandinavian nation has very robust free speech legal guidelines.
Ankara has now cancelled a go to by the Swedish Defence Minister that was aimed toward serving to to take away Turkey's objections to the nation becoming a member of the NATO navy alliance together with Finland.
However there are additionally these in Sweden who don't desire the nation to hitch anyway.
A couple of hours after the right-wing provocation, an anti-NATO protest additionally befell in Stockholm.
A few of the demonstrators had been Kurdish refugees and the protest was organised by the Kurdish Democratic Society Centre.
Turkey considers quite a lot of them terrorists and has known as on Sweden to cease defending them as the worth of Ankara's blessing for acceptance into NATO.
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