The French president Emanuel Macron will discuss today with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan the threat of the latter veto Finland and Sweden’s accession to NATOamid the crisis caused by the war in Ukraine.
The meeting will take place at 11:30 (Paris time; at 12:30 Greek time), according to the French presidency, which clarified that Macron will be in the fortress of Breganson, one of the residences of the French heads of state in Cyan. Coast, where he will stay a few days, as today is a holiday in France.
Ankara said on Wednesday that will not consent to the accession of Sweden and Finland to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization if it does not first see “specific measuresFor their part to allay Turkey ‘s security concerns.
It is noted that yesterday diplomatic delegations of the two Nordic countries visited Turkey for talks.
Turkey causes a problem in NATO with the threat to oppose its expansion, following requests from the two states to join the Atlantic Alliance triggered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine despite their demands being supported by the vast majority of member states of the military alliance.
The Turkish government accuses the two Nordic countries, in particular Sweden, of hosts a large number of Turks in exilethat it offers refuge to separatist Kurdish rebels of the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, which it considers a terrorist organization, as well as to followers of the preacher Gulen Fetulawho accuses of orchestrating the failed military coup of July 2016.
Demands from Helsinki and Stockholm to proceed immediately to “specific measures” for “presence at the organizational, financial and media level of terrorist organizations“, According to a spokesman for the Turkish presidency and a close associate of President Erdogan.
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