Finnish, Swedish NATO Bids Depend On Response To Turkey: Kalın
Date
6/4/2022 11:25:45 PM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
Progress on Finland and Sweden's NATO membership bids ahead of a
NATO summit in Madrid this month depends on their response to
Türkiye's demands, Presidential Spokesperson Ibrahim Kalın said,
Trend reports
citing Daily
Sabah .
Stockholm and Helsinki applied to join the Western defense
alliance last month, but they have faced opposition from Türkiye,
which has accused them of supporting and harboring PKK terrorists
and other groups it deems terrorists.
While Sweden and Finland have said talks with Türkiye would
continue to resolve the dispute, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
said on Wednesday that Ankara had not received any proposals on its
demands, which include stopping support for groups Türkiye
considers terrorists, extraditing suspects sought by Türkiye and
lifting arms embargoes on Ankara.
Kalın, Erdoğan's spokesperson and chief foreign policy adviser,
told Spain's El Pais daily that how Finland and Sweden respond to
Türkiye's demands would determine whether progress can be made
ahead of a NATO summit in Madrid on June 29-30.
'It depends on what Sweden and Finland do,' he said. 'When we
see progress on our requests, then the process will advance. NATO
is not a tourism, nor economic alliance; it is a security alliance,
which means that it must provide security to all its members
equally and fairly.'
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