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Erdogan warns Sweden that it cannot "wait" for Turkey's support for its entry into NATO

MADRID, 23 Ene.

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Erdogan warns Sweden that it cannot "wait" for Turkey's support for its entry into NATO

MADRID, 23 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has warned that Sweden should not "wait" today for Turkish support for its entry into NATO, in a statement that raises the tone after the recent burning of Korans during a demonstration in Stockholm.

"If respect is not shown, I'm sorry but there will be no support from us on the NATO issue," Erdogan said on Monday, at the end of a government meeting, according to the Bloomberg agency. "Do not expect that support from us," he added.

The burning of the Koran during a protest last week has added to a series of grievances that, in the eyes of Ankara, are inadmissible. The Turkish government had already protested the destruction of an Erdogan effigy at another previous rally, which has left NATO enlargement at a standstill.

Sweden and Finland depend on the approval of the 30 member states of the Atlantic Alliance to join, but for now they only have the approval of 28 -- in addition to Turkey, Hungary is also missing to complete the procedures. The Turkish authorities have demanded from those of the Nordic countries more commitments in the persecution of Kurdish groups classified as terrorists by Ankara.