Sweden's NATO bid may have been derailed by Russian involvement in a Koran-burning incident outside Turkey's consulate.

Nothing could have happened at a worse time. When a far-right extremist burned a Koran outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm, Turkey vowed to derail Sweden's NATO ambitions. On Friday, Ankara announced its decision on the NATO proposal by Sweden and Finland as a whole, saying that it would initially only begin ratifying Finland's application. Since then, however, multiple reports have surfaced suggesting that some of the protest'....