Sweden’s hopes of quickly following Finland into NATO membership have alighted on Turkey’s presidential election in May, in which recent polls show President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s 20-year rule is in danger of ending.
If that political earthquake were to actually come to pass on May 14, many experts say the effects would certainly be felt in Sweden.
In January, an anti-Islamic Swedish politician burned a Quran outside the Turkish Embassy just days after a fringe Kurdish group strung up an effigy of Erdogan in front of Stockholm City Hall. While legally protected under Sweden’s freedom of expression laws, those events enraged the Turkish president.
But if Kilicdaroglu does manage an upset over Erdogan, and the current government goes the extra step of allowing those results to stand, Aydıntasbas believes “the first order of business would be improving Turkey’s rule of law and trying to reverse the country’s authoritarian drift.”nearly a third of the journalists imprisoned worldwide
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