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One rally in Stockholm planned for 12 March was cancelledafter the venue owner cancelled the contract for the event, but the Swedish foreign ministry was quick to point out they had no part in the decision and that it could take place elsewhere.

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Leaders in Erdoans party, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), have already staged at least one small rally in the suburbs of Stockholm, with party secretary Mehmet Medhi Eker addressing some three hundred supporters.

The New Europeanreportsthe Scandinavian countrys capitulation in the context of rising support for the populist, anti-mass migration Sweden Democrats. The party has increased their vote share from 5.7 per cent in 2010 to 12.9 per cent in 2014, with opinion polls suggesting they may now have the backing of more than 20 per cent of the electorate.

Erdoan has been escalating a high-level row with the Netherlands in recent days. Over the weekend, the European Union (EU) member state refused to allow Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlt avuolu to attend a rally in Rotterdam and turned back another government minister, Family Minister Fatma Betl Sayan Kaya, who crossed the German border with a fleet of ministerial cars.

The decision prompted the Turkish strongman to promise harsh retaliation anddenigrate the Dutch as fascists and Nazi remnants.

Turkish migrants and dual nationals who support the Moderate Islamist felt compelled to riot in the streets, causing anti-mass migration electoral frontrunner Geert Wilders to broadcast a message saying: You are no Europeans, and you will never be.

An Islamic state like Turkey does not belong to Europe. All the values Europe stands for freedom, democracy, human rights are incompatible with Islam, he said.

Turkey voted for Erdoan, a dangerous Islamist who raises the flag of Islam. We do not want more, but less Islam. So Turkey, stay away from us. You are not welcome here.

Germany and Denmarkhave joined the Netherlands in discouraging the Turkish government from campaigning on their territory withErdoan accusing the former of Nazi practices as a result. Swedens decision marks abreak in European solidarity.

The move has upset Swedens substantial Kurdish population, which has been fighting periodic battles with Turkish migrants on Swedens streets for years.

Kurds have suffered greatly in Turkey since afailed coup attempt by secularists in the Turkish armed forces last year,which Erdoans regime used as an opportunity to crack down on political opponents across the board.

Pro-Kurdish lawmakers from thePeoples Democratic Party (HDP) were arrested en massein November 2016. On 10 March 2017, the United Nations released a report detailing how Turkish military, security, and police forces have subjected thousands of Kurds to summary execution, rape, and torture, and rendered hundreds of thousands homeless by levelling large swathes of their communities.

Source: DigitalGlobe/UNOSAT, via Associated Press

France, like Sweden, has allowed the AKP to campaign on its territory, with Foreign Minister avuolu disparaging the Netherlands as the capital of fascism at a rally in the border city of Metz on 12 March.

The socialist governments permissive stance prompted an indignant response from Marine Le Pen, the populist frontrunner for the first round of Frances upcoming presidential elections.

Why should we tolerate speeches on our soil that other democracies refuse? she asked on social media. No Turkish electoral campaign in France.

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