President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan responded to statements by the authorities of Finland and Sweden about their intention to apply for membership in NATO. Erdogan said that Turkey “is not in a positive mood” on this issue, and he compared the Scandinavian countries with a “boarding house for terrorists,” reports News.
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“We are following the developments regarding Sweden and Finland, but we do not have a positive opinion,” the Turkish president said.
Erdogan said that the Turkish authorities “made a mistake” earlier, giving the green light to Greece’s membership in the Alliance, and now Turkey does not want to make a second such mistake.
“The Scandinavian countries are almost like boarding houses for terrorist organizations,” Erdogan said.
According to him, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party and the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Front are in Sweden and the Netherlands, and accomplices of terrorists “are even represented in their parliaments”, therefore Turkey “cannot have a positive view on this issue.”
- On May 12, Finnish President Sauli Niinistö and Prime Minister Sanna Marin issued a joint statement, officially announcing that support the country’s accession to NATO.
- At the White House declaredthat will support the applications of Finland and Sweden to join NATO, and the reason for the expansion of the Alliance is the Russian dictator himself Vladimir Putin.
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