None of the 10 embassies announced that the ambassadors were persona non grata.

Earlier, the embassies of ten countries - Canada, France, Finland, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and the United States - called on Turkey to release the human rights defender, founder of the cultural foundation Anadolu Kültür AŞ Osman Kavala.

After that, the Turkish Foreign Ministry summoned the ambassadors of these countries. 

On October 23, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that he had instructed the Turkish Foreign Ministry to declare ambassadors of ten countries, who called for the release of human rights activist Osman Kavala, persona non grata.