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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Suzan Fraser and Jan M. Olsen

Sweden: Erdoğan effigy 'act of sabotage' against NATO bid

TT NEWS AGENCY

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson on Friday denounced a protest by Kurds in central Stockholm where an effigy of Turkey's president was hung from a lamppost as an act of sabotage against Sweden's bid to join NATO.

The protest outside City Hall on Wednesday drew an angry backlash from Turkey, a NATO member which already had held off on approving Sweden's application to become part of the Western military alliance until the government in Stockholm satisfies its demands.

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