Turkey’s President Says Meeting Was Not at the Desired Level; he is against countries joining NATO
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said this Sunday (May 29, 2022) that talks with Sweden and Finland on possible membership of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) have not been held. “at the desired level”.
The information was released by the Turkish state news agency. anadolu.
“Unfortunately, the conversations held by our delegation with Finland and Sweden were not at the desired level”Erdogan told reporters on his plane returning from a trip to Azerbaijan.
Last week, delegations from the 3 countries met in Ankara, the Turkish capital. Sweden and Finland hope to reverse Erdogan’s decision not to support either joining the military alliance.
Still in conversation with journalists, the Turkish president said that NATO could not “repeat mistakes made in the past” when admitting “countries that embrace and feed terrorists”. Erdogan accuses Sweden of harboring militants from the PPK (Kurdistan Labor Party), considered a terrorist organization in Turkey.
He also said he would soon call the presidents of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, and Russia, Vladimir Putin. The objective would be to try to encourage the two countries to maintain channels of dialogue and diplomacy to end the war.
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