THE Finland it has to stop “To protect” organization that the Turkey considers it terrorist and take it seriously Ankara’s security concerns if Ankara wants to join NATOstates his representative today Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a Finnish newspaper.
«The problem is not that Finland does not understand Turkey. Finland refuses to take Turkey’s security concerns seriously “said the communication director of the Turkish president, the Fahrettin Altun, in Finland’s largest newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat, via e-mail.
Turkey has oppose accession of Finland and Sweden to the Western Defense Alliance on the grounds that they sponsor individuals associated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and others it describes as terrorists, and because Finland and Sweden stopped exporting weapons to Turkey in 2019.
Altun’s statements echo those of Erdogan’s chief foreign policy adviser, Ibrahim Kalin, to its US counterpart yesterday, Monday. Kalin called on the two Nordic countries to “Take concrete measures against terrorist organizations that threaten Turkey’s national security.”
«Ultimately, the Finnish government will have to decide which is more important, NATO membership or the protection of such organizations.“, Altun noted in his statements to the Finnish newspaper.
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