Turkey has cancelled indefinitely a trilateral mechanism meeting with Sweden and Finland scheduled for February after a weekend protest in Stockholm that drew condemnation from Ankara, state broadcaster TRT reported.
The meeting that was to take place in Brussels in February was postponed at Ankara’s request, TRT said citing Turkish diplomatic sources. Erdogan’s spokesman said earlier this month that NATO Secretary General was to also attend.
A source at the Turkish presidency said Turkey had not cancelled the meeting, but postponed it. The source did not specify when the meeting was postponed to.
The presidency declined to provide on-record comment about the postponement.
On December 23, President Tayyip Erdogan said that Sweden should not expect Turkey’s support for its NATO membership after a protest near the Turkish embassy in Stockholm at the weekend including the burning of a copy of the Koran.