/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/larazon/BSTGDZJZURFD5M6JYUX7DXIQOE.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1 "Sweden says Turkey is making demands to join NATO that the country cannot meet")
Swedish prime minister Ulf Kristerssondeclared this Sunday that the Turkish government is imposing a series of demands on your country to enter the I WILL TAKE what Sweden cannot and will not comply.
“They want things that we cannot and do not want to give them and now the decision falls to the Turks,” Prime Minister Kristersson said during the conference on people and defense held in Stockholm and reported by the newspaper ‘The evening paper‘.
The conference was also attended by the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenbergand the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland, Pekka Haavistoanother country which has also applied to join NATO to protect itself from the threat of Russia and which, like Sweden, has remained at the expense of Turkey remove the veto.
On the way to the National People and Defense Conference in Sälen. An excellent start for the new year 2023, which promises to be very important from the point of view of security policies. @FolkochDefense #fork #säkpol #turpo
— Pekka Haavisto (@Haavisto) January 8, 2023
Ankara refuses to admit the entry of these two countries into the Atlantic Alliance until they hand over all individuals accused by Ankara of belonging to Kurdish organizations declared by the Turkish government as terrorist groups, such as the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Similarly, Turkey is also calling for the opening of bilateral arms trade.
Before the conference, the Finnish foreign minister assured this Finland will wait for Turkey and Sweden to settle their differences. “We’re not in such a hurry to join NATO that we don’t wait for Sweden to receive the green light,” Haavisto said in statements collected by the same media.
