These warnings came against the backdrop of escalating diplomatic tensions related to Turkey’s refusal to allow Sweden and Finland to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Ankara recently expressed its anger at protests organized by a right-wing extremist, who was allowed to burn copies of the Koran in front of its embassies in Stockholm and Copenhagen.
Turkish Foreign Ministry statement
• Beware of dangerous levels of Religious intolerance hate in Europe.
• There have been recent verbal and physical attacks against foreigners, and acts of racism across the United States.
Finland and Sweden cut decades of military non-alignment and applied to join NATO in response to Russia’s military attack on Ukraine.
But the application for membership must be approved by all thirty members of the alliance, noting that Turkey and Hungary are the only two members that have not ratified the two requests so far.
The Hungarian Parliament is expected to ratify the two requests next month.
Except that the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan He still refuses to agree to the two requests, accusing Helsinki and Stockholm of harboring Kurdish activists and sympathizers of the PKK and its allies in northern Syria and Iraq, whom Ankara describes as "terrorists".
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The United States and major Western countries have advised their citizens not to attend mass events, and to avoid crowded tourist places Turkey.
These warnings came against the backdrop of escalating diplomatic tensions related to Turkey’s refusal to allow Sweden and Finland to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Ankara recently expressed its anger at protests organized by a right-wing extremist, who was allowed to burn copies of the Koran in front of its embassies in Stockholm and Copenhagen.
Turkish Foreign Ministry statement
• Beware of dangerous levels of Religious intolerance hate in Europe.
• There have been recent verbal and physical attacks against foreigners, and acts of racism across the United States.
Finland and Sweden cut decades of military non-alignment and applied to join NATO in response to Russia’s military attack on Ukraine.
But the application for membership must be approved by all thirty members of the alliance, noting that Turkey and Hungary are the only two members that have not ratified the two requests so far.
The Hungarian Parliament is expected to ratify the two requests next month.
Except that the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan He still refuses to agree to the two requests, accusing Helsinki and Stockholm of harboring Kurdish activists and sympathizers of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and its allies in northern Syria and Iraq, whom Ankara describes as “terrorists”.