Sweden's Ambassador to Ankara Staffan Herrström was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today due to the broadcast of a program with insulting content and visuals against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Türkiye on Swedish State Television (SVT).
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs communicated to Herrström Türkiye's strong reaction to the programme on SVT and underlined that impertinence and ugly expressions and visuals against our President and our country are unacceptable and that it is not possible to evaluate such broadcasts within the scope of freedom of expression or press.