Turkey summons Swiss ambassador over Erdogan protests
Turkey is sensitive to protests that target president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Keystone / Federico Gambarini
Turkey has summoned the Swiss ambassador in Ankara to protest the burning of an effigy of president Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Zurich.
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The Swiss ambassador was told that “provocations against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Turkish flag are unacceptable,” according to Turkish state media.
Turkey has demanded a Swiss investigation to track down and punish the perpetrators.
The Swiss foreign ministry told the Keystone-SDA news agency that it had been informed of the summons.
This is not the first time that Ankara has complained to Switzerland over anti-Erdogan protests on Swiss soil.
In 2017, the Turkish authorities were enraged by protestors in Bern who unfurled a banner depicting a gun pointed at the head of Erdogan and the slogan: “Kill Erdogan with his own weapons”.
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