Swedens bid to join NATO will not receive support after Koran-burning incident Trkiye

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country will not back Sweden’s bid to join NATO. The statement came after an anti-Islamic politician publicly burned a copy of the Koran outside Ankara’s embassy in Stockholm during a protest sanctioned by local police. The incident also attracted a severe backlash from the global Muslim community.
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