Turkish prosecutors have opened an investigation right into a legal provocation by supporters of the terrorist group PKK/YPG in Sweden threatening the Turkish president.
The transfer got here after the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, filed a legal grievance with prosecutors within the capital Ankara over the provocation.
“A criminal complaint has been filed with the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, demanding that an investigation be launched into the perpetrators due to the criminal acts targeting our President,” Erdoğan’s lawyer Hüseyin Aydın stated on Twitter.
Amid a push for Sweden to take stronger motion towards terrorist teams which goal the Turkish public and its leaders, the capital Stockholm on Thursday noticed a protest which amounted to a provocation and a legal menace.
In the demonstration, staged throughout from City Hall, supporters of the PKK/YPG terror group hung a determine of Erdoğan in effigy by the toes.
Video footage of the incident was shortly uploaded to a social media account affiliated with the fear group, with threats and insults focusing on Türkiye and Erdoğan with Turkish subtitles.
Sweden’s Ambassador to Ankara Staffan Herrstrom was later summoned to the Turkish Foreign Ministry concerning the incident.
Last November, supporters of the fear group PKK/YPG projected photographs insulting Erdoğan on a Turkish Embassy constructing in Stockholm.
The threatening protest got here as Sweden tries to reassure Türkiye that it stands towards terrorists which threaten the nation, such because the PKK/YPG, whereas searching for Ankara’s approval for the Nordic nation to affix NATO.
Turkish officers have stated Sweden has but to satisfy the pledges it made to affix the alliance.
