According to the representative of the Turkish presidency, some issues are still to be agreed, which will be discussed tomorrow at the quadripartite meeting.
The possibility of an agreement with Finland and Turkey in order to join NATO was left open by the representative of the Turkish presidency, Ibrahim Kalin, despite the “oriental bazaar” in which Ankara is engaged in the run-up to the NATO Summit.
According to the SKAI correspondent in Istanbul, Manolis Kostidiseverything will depend on tomorrow quadripartite meeting Finland-Sweden-Turkey-NATO, which will be attended by Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Should Turkey veto their membership, things will not be optimistic for attitude that all NATO countries will take towards Turkey and this is one reason why Ankara may not raise the issue of militarization of the Aegean islands.
However, the representative of the Turkish Presidency, Ibrahim Kalinstated that in many respects they have reached an agreement with Sweden and Finland and tomorrow there will be consultations on some outstanding issues. “If we agree,” he said, “and the rest we can go to Madrid with a different air,” leaving the possibility of some kind of agreement is open.
«We are consulting on a text that should be signed. We want our requests and their promises to be recorded. We explained all our requests in specific terms. Specific articles. We agreed on most, but there are some issues that we could not agree on. We will negotiate these tomorrow. If we reach an agreement maybe we will go to Madrid in a better wayHe said in an interview.
In the issue of GreeceTurkey observes tough stance raising the issue of demilitarization of the Greek islands and sovereignty.
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