ISTANBUL, Jan 21 ― Turkey on Saturday called off a visit by Sweden’s defence minister over a planned demonstration by a right-wing extremist in Stockholm. Turkey has been...
ISTANBUL, Jan 21 ― Turkey on Saturday called off a visit by Sweden’s defence minister over a planned demonstration by a right-wing extremist in Stockholm.
“At this point, Swedish Defence Minister Pal Jonson’s visit to Turkey on January 27 has lost its significance and meaning, so we cancelled the visit,” Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said. “Allowing this action despite all our warnings is encouraging hate crimes and Islamophobia,” he tweeted.Turkey had on Friday summoned Sweden’s ambassador to “condemn this provocative action which is clearly a hate crime -- in strongest terms,” a diplomatic source said.
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