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2023-01-14 The Grand Turk
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Turkey lashes out at Sweden over Kurdish tweet
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[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
on Thursday summoned Sweden's ambassador to lodge an angry protest over a video posted by a Kurdish group in Stockholm that depicted President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
 ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
swinging by his legs from a rope.
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The diplomatic spat threatened to set back Sweden's efforts to break down NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
member Turkey's resistance to its bid to join the Western defence alliance in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The ambassador was summoned a day after the Kurdish Rojava Committee of Sweden compared Erdogan to Italia's late dictator Benito Mussolini
...former dictator of Italia. He perfected the idea of the corporate state and was all the vogue in intellectual circles until he lined up with Adolf in the Second World War. He wanted Italians to be figli de la lupa, and like the sons of wolves they turned on him when they finally got the chance. He ended his days dangling by his heels in a public square next to his mistress...
in a tweet.
The Fascist ruler was hung upside down after his execution in the closing days of World War II.
"History shows how dictators end up," the group wrote above a video showing pictures of Mussolini's 1945 execution and then a dummy painted to look like Erdogan swinging on a rope.
"It is time for Erdogan to resign. Take this chance and quit so that you don't end up hanging upside down on (Istanbul's) Taksim Square."
The tweet came as Turkey piles pressure on Sweden and fellow NATO hopeful Finland to clamp down on Kurdish groups it views as "terrorists".
Sweden has a larger Kurdish diaspora and a bigger dispute with Turkey.
Ankara has dug in its heels during protracted negotiations that hinge on the extent to which Sweden is ready to meet Turkey's demand to extradite Kurdish suspects and prosecute groups such as the Rojava Committee.
It lashed out furiously Thursday at both the Rojava Committee and what it deemed as Stockholm's soft response to the tweet.
- 'OPEN DEBATE' -
Erdogan's chief front man said Turkey condemned the Kurdish group "in the strongest possible terms".
"We urge the Swedish authorities to take necessary steps against terrorist groups without further delay," front man Fahrettin Altun tweeted.
His message came in direct response to a tweeted statement from Sweden's Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom condemning the video.
Stockholm supports "an open debate about politics" but "distances itself from threats and hatred against political representatives", Billstrom wrote.
"Portraying a popularly elected president as being executed outside city hall is abhorrent," the Swedish diplomat wrote.
Billstrom's message did little to appease Ankara.
The Ottoman Turkish foreign ministry summoned the Swedish ambassador for a dressing down that included accusations of Stockholm going back on its past promises to Ankara.
"Our expectation is that the perpetrators of this action are found," a diplomatic source said.
The Anadolu state news agency then announced that Turkey's parliament speaker had revoked an invitation for his Swedish counterpart to visit Ankara next Tuesday.
The angry exchange over a tweet came less than a month after Billstrom paid a cordial visit to Turkey in an effort to get the NATO membership bid over the line.
The Swedish government has since signalled that it has reached the limit of what it can do to meet Erdogan's demands before Turkey's next election -- now expected some time before June.
Turkey has been battling a decades-long insurgency against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
But it has also used its fight against the PKK to justify prosecuting Kurdish politicians and support groups.
Turkey's top court is now weighing whether to ban the country's main Kurdish-backed party before the polls. 
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