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		</div><p>Turkey has issued a warning to its citizens living in or planning to travel to European countries, citing Islamophobia and anti-Turkish demonstrations.</p>
<p>The warning comes after protests in Sweden last weekend where an anti-Islam activist burned the Koran and pro-Kurdish groups protested against Turkey.</p>
<p>The Turkish foreign ministry urged its citizens to take precautions and stay away from demonstration areas.</p>
<p>It also said they should go to local authorities if they face xenophobic or racist attacks.</p>
<p>Turkey strongly condemned far-right activist Rasmus Paludan’s burning of the Koran in Stockholm, which he repeated in Denmark’s capital, Copenhagen, on Friday.</p>
<p>Ankara also summoned the Dutch ambassador after another far-right activist tore pages of the Koran in The Hague.</p>
<p>The Turkish government also said there has been an increase in anti-Turkish protests by “groups with links to terror groups” – a reference to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which has waged a decades-long insurgency against Turkey.</p>
<figure id="attachment_177496" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-177496" style="width: 775px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/C09DDBE0-0655-4844-B58E-E14E07B9751F.jpeg" alt="" width="775" height="534" class="size-full wp-image-177496" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-177496" class="wp-caption-text">Police cordon off an area in front of a mosque in Copenhagen, Denmark, where far-right activist Rasmus Paludan planned to burn the Koran</figcaption></figure>
<p>Pro-Kurdish groups have been demonstrating in Sweden, waving the flags of the PKK and its affiliates.</p>
<p>The protests are a response to Sweden and Finland’s promise to prevent the PKK’s activities in their countries in order to gain Turkey’s approval for their Nato bids.</p>
<p>Following the protests, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Sweden not to expect support for its membership bid for the military alliance.</p>
<p>Turkey also indefinitely postponed a key meeting in Brussels that would have discussed Sweden and Finland’s Nato membership.</p>
<p>Earlier, before Turkey had issued its travel warning, the Nordic countries separately issued updated travel guidelines for Turkey.</p>
<p>Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden urged their citizens visiting Turkey to avoid large gatherings and to exercise caution.</p>
<p>The Swedish Foreign Ministry said in a message on its website that Sweden’s embassy in Ankara remains closed to the public and visitors to the country’s consulate general in Istanbul are “requested to exercise vigilance”.</p>
<p>“We want to make Swedes in Turkey aware that further manifestations may occur,” the Swedish ministry said, referring to counter-protests that erupted in Turkey after last weekend’s events in Stockholm.</p>
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