Her Foreign Office Turkey called her ambassador today Sweden protesting that the Swedish authorities had given permission for a demonstration next Saturday outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm.

Ankara denounced the “provocative” mobilization, which it said included the burning of the Quran, according to a source close to the ministry. The ministry told a Swedish diplomat that Turkey “expects” the decision to allow the demonstration to be overturned.

The ministry also told the Swedish ambassador that allowing a separate protest tomorrow by a group of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) “sympathizers” is a violation of bilateral agreements.

Sweden and Finland are waiting for Turkey to approve their entry into NATO. Last week, Swedish Ambassador to Turkey Staffan Herström was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in connection with yet another demonstration in which participants hung an effigy of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Sweden condemned the incident, but Ankara says it must take a clear stance on terrorism.

^{Source: APE-MEB, Reuters}