{"id":90708,"date":"2023-01-13T08:47:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T08:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=90708"},"modified":"2023-01-13T08:47:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T08:47:42","slug":"protestors-hang-puppet-of-turkeys-erdogan-in-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/90708\/","title":{"rendered":"Protestors hang puppet of Turkey’s Erdogan in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) \u2013<\/strong> A group of people, said to be Kurds, demonstrated on Thursday in the Swedish capital of Stockholm and hung a puppet of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan outside the Stockholm city hall, calling him a “dictator”.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The footage of the hung puppet was shared by pro-government Turkish media and said it was a protest by members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHistory has shown that this is how dictators end up\u201d, reads the video, which was published on Twitter by the Committee of Rojava (the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s time for Erdogan to resign before he ends up hung in Taksim”, referring to the main square in the Turkish capital, Istanbul. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The PKK is already branded as a terrorist organization by the US and the European Union. Both the PKK and Turkey have been involved in a war against each other for more than 40 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the incident, Turkey summoned Sweden’s ambassador to Ankara, Staffan Herrstrom, to convey to him Ankara’s reaction, Reuters<\/a> cited a Turkish diplomatic source as saying.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tobias Billstrom, condemned the video, though this did not appear to satisfy Turkey.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Government safeguards an open debate on political choices, it strongly repudiates threats and hate directed towards political representatives. The portrayal of an executed elected President outside City Hall is deplorable,” Billstrom tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddea Government safeguards an open debate on political choices, it strongly repudiates threats and hate directed towards political representatives. The portrayal of an executed elected President outside City Hall is deplorable.<\/p>— Tobias Billstr\u00f6m (@TobiasBillstrom) January 12, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>