Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned this Sunday that they might respond “differently” to Finland’s NATO membership request.A response that “shocked” Sweden.
“We will respond differently to Finland if necessary. Sweden will be shocked when we respond differently to Finland. Finland should not make the same mistake,” Erdogan said during an event with young people in the Turkish province of Bilecik, the news agency reported. Anatolia.
Erdogan recalled giving Sweden a list of 120 names. “YouThese terrorists should be deported to join NATO”, he emphasized.
Turkey and Hungary are the only members of the 30-nation Western Defense Alliance that do not recognize Sweden and Finland’s membership concessions.
The Hungarian parliament is expected to approve both offers in February.
But Erdogan has caught himself ahead of a heated May 14 presidential election, trying to energize his conservative and nationalist support base.
Sweden and Finland submitted applications for NATO membership in a coordinated manner last May, but Turkey has veto power as a member of the alliance, so Stockholm used the opportunity to demand that party members be persecuted- Kurdish militias. Kurdistan Workers Party (P.K.K)
Erdogan’s main complaint is Sweden’s refusal to hand over dozens of suspects to Ankara with links to outlawed Kurdish militias and the failed 2016 coup attempt.
In June, Turkey and the two Scandinavian countries signed a memorandum in Madrid in which they undertook to satisfy Ankara’s legitimate security concerns.
On January 8, the Prime Minister of Sweden, Ulf ChristersonI announced that The Turkish government has been making repeated demands on its country to join NATO, which Sweden cannot accept and is unwilling to comply with.
“They want things we can’t give and don’t want to give, and now the decision falls on the Turks.” The Prime Minister made the announcement during the People and Security Conference in Stockholm and the newspaper reported Evening paper.
Tensions worsened after Swedish-Danish far-right activists burned a copy of the Koran in front of a mosque in Denmark on Friday. With Rasmus PaludParty leader Rigorous study (hard line). The previous Friday he burned another copy in Stockholm.
“Did they destroy the Quran by burning a copy of the Quran in Sweden? Just showed how despicable they are. Denmark did the same,” Erdogan said.
Balut announced that he would burn a copy of the Koran every Friday until Sweden joined NATO. So far it has only met with condemnation from majority Muslim countries.
With information from Europa Press
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