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Turkiye expects Sweden to fulfil pledges under Madrid memorandum for NATO bid

Turkiye expects Sweden to fulfil its promises made under last year's Madrid memorandum for its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) bid, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Friday, citing a pact signed with Turkiye, Norway and Sweden at a NATO summit. Speaking at a military graduation ceremony in Istanbul, Erdogan criticised Sweden for embracing terrorists despite its pledges, questioning: "How can a state that does not distance itself from […]

9 July 2023

International

Erdogan warns Sweden on NATO bid after Quran burning protest

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned Sweden that it should not expect his backing to join NATO following the burning of the Quran outside Ankara’s embassy in Stockholm during a protest. “Those who allow such blasphemy in front of our embassy [in Stockholm] can no longer expect our support for their NATO membership,” Erdogan said on Monday, in his first official response to the act by a far-right politician during a […]

24 January 2023

International

Sweden to distance itself from Kurdish militias in effort to join NATO, FM says

Sweden has reaffirmed its decision to distance itself from Kurdish militant groups in its bid to join NATO, as it attempts to secure Turkiye's approval to join the military alliance. Earlier this year, Sweden and Finland applied to join NATO as a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the potential threat it would pose to them. While that bid was approved by 28 of the alliance's 30 member states, […]

6 November 2022

News

Local water invention by high schoolers takes global stage

By: Aneeqa du Plessis With South Africa known for its sporadic droughts and more recently, drier winter season, two high-school learners from Heatherlands High in George Western Cape, created a water-wise innovation that would stop continuous leakages from taps and ultimately help the country save water. Under the watchful eye of their Physical Science teacher Marrisa Murphy, Unam Halam and Faith Claasen jetted off to Stockholm, Sweden to partake in […]

6 September 2022

International

Muslim, Orthodox Christian graves vandalised in Sweden

At least 20 graves belonging to Muslims and Orthodox Christians were vandalised in a cemetery in the southern Swedish city of Malmo, local media reported Monday, says Anadolu Agency. Many tombstones were also scrawled with red paint by unidentified people at Ostra Cemetery, reported Swedish public broadcaster SVT, citing police spokesperson Nils Norling. The Swedish SvD newspaper reported that around 20 graves were damaged and Muslims who wanted to pray for their […]

4 May 2022

International

Top Islamic bloc condemns Quran burning in Sweden

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), on Tuesday, strongly condemned the burning of copies of the Muslim Holy Book, the Quran, in Sweden, Anadolu News Agency reports. In a statement, OIC Secretary-General, Hissein Brahim Taha denounced "the provocative actions of burning copies of the Holy Quran during anti-Muslim demonstrations, which have been taking place in Linkoping, Norrkoping, and other cities in Sweden." The pan-Muslim group said the burning has raised Muslim concerns […]

20 April 2022

International News

Victims of Syrian gov’t chemical attacks file case in Sweden

Four NGOs have announced they have filed a criminal complaint in Sweden against members of the Syrian government, including President Bashar al-Assad, over chemical weapons attacks in 2013 and 2017. In the complaint filed with Swedish police, the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), Civil Rights Defenders, Syrian Archive (SA), and the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) accuse Syrian officials of chemical attacks using sarin gas, in […]

20 April 2021

International News

Trump baffles Sweden with crime comment

A day after falsely suggesting there was an immigration-related security incident in Sweden, US President Donald Trump said on Sunday his comment was based on a television report he had seen. Trump, who in his first weeks in office has tried to tighten US borders sharply for national security reasons, told a rally on Saturday that Sweden was having serious problems with immigrants. “You look at what's happening last night […]

20 February 2017

Sweden

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