In Sweden the burning of the Koran is authorized, Putin embraces it
The Swedish government has authorized organizers of a demonstration to burn the Koran outside a mosque in Stockholm on June 28. The decision should draw the ire of Turkey and hinder the potential accession of the Nordic country to NATO, as has already happened in the past.
NATO officials are trying to admit Stockholm into the US-led alliance at their summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, next month. Officials have already made clear that Sweden's failure to admit it by July would send a dangerous and humiliating message to enemies of the security alliance.
On the contrary, Putin, while visiting Derbent , showed himself in public embracing the Koran.
We recall that Putin is an orthodox Christian, however, raised in atheistic communism. Yet, if only for political reasons, he shows respect to one of the major religions in Russia…
Since Russia launched its military operation in Ukraine in February 2022, Sweden and Finland have sought to join NATO as a defense mechanism in case the war in Ukraine supposedly spills over into Europe.
Gaining membership would require a unanimous vote from NATO members, but Turkey and Hungary voted against the Nordic countries' request.
Ankara has accused Helsinki and Stockholm of harboring members and supporters of the PKK and its Syrian offshoot, the People's Protection Units (YPG), which Turkey considers terrorist organizations.
At the end of March, Turkey granted NATO admission to Finland. Sweden's admission is still pending.
Despite high expectations for Stockholm in relation to the forthcoming July summit, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently rejected the prospect of Swedish NATO membership due to Stockholm's failure to meet some of Ankara's requirements for joining the security alliance, such as recently allowing PKK supporters to demonstrate in the streets of its capital.
Turkey has already condemned Swedish authorities for allowing a far-right anti-immigrant group to burn several Korans outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm earlier this year, which led Ankara to block a decision to join the country in NATO.
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson called the act of burning the Koran "extremely serious" and an attempt to sabotage the country's candidacy for NATO.
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