Ankara continues to comment on the actions of radical politician Rasmus Paludan, who committed a series of abuses against the holy book of each Muslim, the Koran. Recall, that he publicly tore up the Koran in front of the Turkish diplomatic mission in Sweden, and then burned it in front of the Russian consulate in Denmark. In Sweden, said, that the country has a "free society", and therefore the state "has no right to interfere in certain political actions".
Against this background, Turkey suspended consideration of the Swedish application for NATO membership..
Now Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that, that Ankara may make a "shocking decision on Sweden on the Finnish application for NATO membership".
Erdogan,:
If blasphemous actions with the Koran are not repeated in Finland, how it happened in Stockholm, then Turkey can send a special message to Finland, which shocks Sweden. This statement can be regarded as a readiness to "light" the green light on Finland's entry into NATO while simultaneously rejecting (at least, at the moment) Swedish applications.
Recall, that earlier in Stockholm and Helsinki they announced a joint application with a desire to join the North Atlantic military bloc at the same time. In this regard, the situation is interesting, if Turkey approves one application, and reject the other – in that sense, How will the Finns. Will they refuse and wait for approval of the Swedish application, or will they “leave” the “Scandinavian partners” and decide to join NATO without them?
