(MENAFN) Türkiye received Sweden and Finland's "constructive approach to address" Ankara's worries as the groups inked a memorandum after a four-way conference held in Madrid.
"Our government will be working closely with our Finnish and Swedish counterparts to implement this agreement. We are satisfied with their constructive approach to address our concerns. We will work to ensure that NATO has more unity on terrorism," Turkish Communications Director Fahrettin Altun tweeted.
Altun added the conference between Turkish Leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Finland's Leader Sauli Niinisto, Swedish Premier Magdelena Andersson, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg "achieved concrete, specific and significant results regarding our concerns over terrorism."
All groups "agreed to full cooperation against the terror organization PKK and all its extensions," Altun noted, saying that "Sweden and Finland committed to stand with Türkiye against all forms of terrorism and promised not to provide support to the PYD/YPG and FETO terror groups."
He as well quoted the contract on Sweden and Finland's stopping "restrictions or sanctions on our defense industry and increase cooperation in this arena," and declared, "they have committed to revise counter-terrorism laws to address our concerns regarding terror activities cloaked under pseudo political activities."
Türkiye, Sweden, and Finland have also "agreed to create an intelligence sharing and cooperation mechanism against terrorism and organized crime," according to the Turkish official.
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