In a telephone conversation with the NATO Secretary General last Saturday, the Turkish President told him that Finland and Sweden should take honest and meaningful steps regarding the shelter they offer to PKK members.
The Turkish President will have a meeting with his Finnish counterpart and the Swedish Prime Minister tomorrow, Tuesday, in Madrid. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to discuss the candidacies of Sweden and Finland at NATO blocked by Ankara, Helsinki announced.
This is Erdogan’s first meeting with the Finnish president, Sauli Niinisto, and the Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Anderson will take place at the beginning of the NATO summit in the Spanish capital, in the presence of the Secretary General of the Alliance Jens Stoltenbergthe Finnish presidency announced via Twitter.
In a telephone communication that he had Turkish president with the NATO Secretary General last Saturday told him that Finland and Sweden needed to take honest and meaningful steps regarding the shelter they offer to members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Kurdish YPG militia in Syria, according to a statement. of the Turkish Presidency.
The Turkish president stressed that sanctions against his country’s defense industry should be lifted and not returned after the two Nordic countries joined the North Atlantic Alliance.
Erdogan also had a telephone conversation with Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Anderson, in which he said that Stockholm had not changed its stance on the PKK and YPG and that its country had not yet taken substantial steps to allay Turkey’s concerns. .
He also reiterated Ankara’s expectations for the lifting of all sanctions imposed on the Turkish defense industry.
Turkey has blocked the accession process of Finland and Sweden to NATO, accusing the two Nordic countries of offering refuge to YPG and PKK members and imposing sanctions on their future ally.
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