Sweden said on Thursday it would tighten laws covering membership of terrorist organisations months after an agreement with Turkey on fighting terrorism aimed at overcoming its objections to Swedish NATO membership.
"There is a clearer and stronger rhetoric," Strommer said.reached in June aimed at overcoming Ankara's objections to Sweden and Finland becoming members of NATO., after protests in Stockholm including that by Paludan.
Strommer said the new law would not affect the right to demonstrate nor prevent people waving the flag of the banned Kurdistan Workers Party , which took up arms against the Turkish state in 1984.
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