Finnish Delegation To Visit Türkiye For NATO Talks Next Week
Date
10/23/2022 12:06:17 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) Finnish officials are expected to visit Türkiye next Tuesday to
hold technical discussions with Turkish counterparts on Ankara's
extradition requests of wanted terrorists as part of a recently
reached agreement on the sidelines of the former's NATO membership,
reports
citing .
Finnish Justice Ministry officials will meet in the capital
Ankara with a delegation headed by Kasım Cicek, the director
general of foreign relations and the European Union at the Turkish
Justice Ministry.
During the meeting, Turkish officials will reiterate their
request to the Finnish delegation to extradite members of two
terrorist groups, the PKK and the Gulenist Terror Group (FETO), the
latter the group behind the 2016 defeated coup in Türkiye. Evidence
of the accused terrorists' crimes will also be laid out in
documents.
Finland and Sweden formally applied to join NATO in June.
However, Türkiye, a NATO member for over 70 years, voiced
objections to the membership bids, criticizing the two countries
for tolerating and even supporting terrorist groups.
The three countries signed a trilateral memorandum of
understanding at NATO's June summit in Madrid, which stipulates
that Finland and Sweden will not provide support to the YPG/PYD-the
PKK terrorist group's Syrian offshoot-or FETO.
The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Türkiye, the
European Union, and the U.S., and is responsible for the deaths of
40,000 people, including women, children, and infants. The
YPG-which also has a presence in Europe, openly sanctioned by
several governments-is the terrorist PKK's Syrian branch.
The Nordic countries also agreed to address Ankara's pending
deportation or extradition requests for terror suspects.
Türkiye's parliament must ratify the country's approval for
Finland and Sweden's membership for them to join NATO.
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