ISTANBUL, 28 Jan. (DPA/EP) –
The governments of Sweden, Norway and Denmark have issued separate statements calling on their fellow citizens to avoid crowds and crowds on their possible visits to Turkey in response to the growing diplomatic tension with Ankara.
The Scandinavian press has reported these travel notices, issued after Turkey’s express blockade of Sweden’s entry into NATO or Ankara’s criticism of “Islamophobic” behavior such as the burning of a copy of the Koran in Stockholm at the hands of an ultra-rightist Swedish-Danish, Rasmus Paludan.
Paludan has announced his intention to burn a copy of the Koran every Friday until Sweden can join NATO, to which Turkey has responded by summoning the Danish ambassador to protest.
Other notable incidents have been the demonstration in which a wimp of the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was hung by the feet in Stockholm or another in which pages of the Koran were torn in the Netherlands.
In addition, Turkey is in the middle of the electoral campaign for the presidential and legislative elections scheduled for May 14.
