Sweden's Foreign Minister Tobias Bilstrom said on Saturday that the country's NATO accession process has been put on hold, according to local media Expressen..

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" in that direction,"

Following the release of these statements, Billstrom's press secretary Anna Ehrhardt got in touch and stated that Billstrom meant:.

" The government continues to implement the memorandum between Sweden, Finland and Turkey. But Turkey decides when it ratifies"

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Billstrom told Swedish TV on Saturday that the Foreign Office has made a lot of efforts to get rid of anger against Sweden in recent weeks and that it may take some time for anti-Swedish sentiment to subside after such a big event..

We are talking about the events earlier this month that led to protests against the Turkish president and the burning of a copy of the Koran in Stockholm..

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday warned Sweden that it should not expect Ankara's support to join NATO after this (public Muslim book burning). And the meeting between Turkey, Sweden and Finland, scheduled for February, has been postponed indefinitely..

In a recent poll by the semi-official Anadolu agency, 92.5 percent of respondents in Turkey said "