The incident adds further diplomatic strain in Sweden's bid to win Turkey's approval to join NATO.
Footage first shared on Twitter by the so-called Swedish Solidarity Committee for Rojava, referring to the Kurdish regions of Syria, showed an Erdogan effigy hung by its feet outside Stockholm city hall with a few people standing by.
Ankara has said Sweden needed to take a clearer stance against what it sees as terrorists, mainly Kurdish militants and the organisation it blames for a 2016 coup attempt. Echoing pro-government Turkish media that broadcast footage of the incident, Aydin said it was understood to have been organised by the Kurdistan Workers Party militant group, which is designated as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the European Union and United States.
Erdogan's spokesman Ibrahim Kalin condemned the"disgusting and heinous" protest and said Swedish authorities were obliged to take concrete steps under the law and the deal with Turkey.
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