Turkey is ready to discuss with Finland and Sweden their candidature for NATO and the reasons which arouse Ankara’s hostility vis-à-vis this enlargement, declared this Saturday the head of Turkish diplomacy, Mevlut Cavusoglu.
“The vast majority of the Turkish people are against the membership of these countries which support the terrorist organization PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) and they ask us to block this membership,” said the minister before a NATO meeting in Berlin in which its Finnish and Swedish counterparts participate.
“But these are issues that we must of course discuss with our NATO allies as well as with the countries” concerned, he added.
This Saturday, Pekka Haavisto, the head of Finnish diplomacy, said he was confident about the possibility of reaching an agreement with Turkey despite the hostility of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to let Finland join NATO.
Sweden and Finland, “hostel to PKK terrorists” for Erdogan
Recep Tayyip Erdogan notably criticized Sweden and Finland for serving as a “hostel for PKK terrorists”, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, considered a terrorist organization by Turkey, but also the European Union and the United States. United.
The accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO would be a “mistake”, judged Friday the Turkish president.