Talks over Sweden’s NATO membership stall after Quran burning

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Relations between Sweden and Turkey were already on rocky ground before a far-right Danish politician burned the Quran outside Ankara’s Embassy in Stockholm. The incident last weekend sparked protests not just in Turkey but in Jordan, Yemen and Iraq. It may also have put Sweden’s bid to join NATO in jeopardy. The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports. 

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