Flamman invites its readers to send in satirical drawings of Turkish President Erdogan.

The best ones will be published in the magazine, and a winner will be awarded a prize sum of SEK 10,000.

According to the newspaper's editor-in-chief Leonidas Aretakis, the aim is to "raise the problem with the government's handling of the NATO process".

- We launched this competition to stand up for free speech and to stand up for the Kurds," says Leonidas Aretakis to SVT.

"Skända flaggan" in a new version

The satirist drawing competition is introduced in Flamman with a new version of the artist Carl Johan De Geer's sixties classic "Skända flaggan".

The reworked illustration is made with the permission of the original artist.

In social media, De Geer writes that he "of course said yes, with joy" when Flamman contacted him to make a pastiche of the classic with the purpose of the competition.

"I hope that our sabotage will have the intended effect.

We do not want to be part of a nuclear weapons alliance," writes Carl Johan De Geer.

Controversial publication

The competition may have consequences at the highest political level.

But Leonidas Aretakis believes that responsibility does not lie on Flamman's table.

- If there are diplomatic consequences because a newspaper uses its right to print the opinions it wants to print, then it is not us who have made a mistake, but then it just shows how wrongly thought this whole NATO process is, he tells SVT.

When asked whether this is a careless publication, Leonidas Aretakis replies "definitely not" and calls on other media to do the same.

Criticizes the government

The protest competition comes shortly after a doll, representing Erdogan, was hung upside down from a rope outside Stockholm City Hall last week.

The action had immediate consequences - Turkey marked the occasion by summoning Sweden's ambassador for talks and canceling Speaker Andreas Norlén's visit.

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) condemned the puppet protest, while Leonidas Aretakis believes that it is reprehensible that Sweden's government "does everything to appease this oppressive regime".

SVT has asked Foreign Minister Tobias Billström for a comment.