Will Turkey allow Finland and Sweden to join NATO?
Finland and Sweden NATO Consideration of membership application at Madrid summit this month will depend on Stockholm and Helsinki’s response to Ankara’s demands
Finland and Sweden NATO Consideration of its application for membership at a summit in Madrid this month will depend on Stockholm and Helsinki’s response to Ankara’s demands.
Do this on June 3 Turkey presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said.
Sweden and Finland are concerned about the geopolitical threat posed by Russia’s attack on Ukraine NATO They applied for membership last month.
However Turkey The two countries immediately announced their disapproval of NATO membership.
According to the NATO Charter, the consent of all other members is required for any country to become a member.
However Turkey He accuses Helsinki and Stockholm of sponsoring Kurdish separatists and other groups that Turkey considers terrorists.
Earlier, in the talks between the two countries and Turkey, Ankara’s demands were presented to the other side.
“NATO is not a tourism alliance”
Sweden and Finland have said they are in talks with Turkey, Reuters reports.
But Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Ankara said this week that it had not yet received a response from Helsinki and Stockholm.
Erdogan’s adviser and spokesman Ibrahim Kalin told the Spanish newspaper El Pais that whether Finland’s and Sweden’s applications will be considered at the NATO summit on June 29-30 will depend on their response to Turkey’s demands.
“It will depend on what Sweden and Finland do. If we see progress in meeting our requirements, then there will be progress in the process. NATO is not a tourism or economic alliance. This is a security alliance. This means that the organization must ensure the security of all its members equally and fairly.
During his visit to Washington, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that he would hold talks with representatives of Sweden, Finland and Turkey in the coming days.
However, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said this week that he did not see any point in holding such a meeting until concrete answers were received from Stockholm and Helsinki.
Ibrahim Kalın