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President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoganannounced this Friday that it gives green light for Finland to join NATO while accession negotiations with Sweden will continue. The President of
President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoganannounced this Friday that it gives green light for Finland to join NATO while accession negotiations with Sweden will continue.
The President of Turkey made such statements at a press conference in Ankara together with his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinistö.
“We will start the process of submitting a protocol on Finland’s accession to NATO to parliament,” Erdogan said, adding that he hoped the process could be completed before the parliamentary and presidential elections scheduled for next year. May 14.
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“I signed the protocol and we sent it to the parliament. I hope that the process will be completed before the elections,” the president said.
The coalition of Erdogan’s party, the Islamist AKP, with the nationalist MHP has a majority in parliament, and in addition, the opposition also did not object to Finland’s entry into the Atlantic alliance, so passing through the chamber would easy procedure.
“Turkey is one of the biggest proponents of NATO’s open door policy. We have seen that Finland has taken sincere steps to fulfill the promises contained in the Madrid Trilateral Memorandum (signed last July),” Erdogan said.
He added that Ankara saw the need to split the process Finnish Sweden, by failing to appear in Stockholm to Turkey’s demands for the extradition of people whom Turkey considers connected with terrorist organizations, especially from the Kurdish sphere.
“We are not against Sweden. But Sweden opened its arms to terrorists she opened her streets to them. I told the Prime Minister of Sweden to send us 120 terrorists. Since they are not given to us, we cannot have a positive attitude towards them. This does not happen in Finland, so our position is positive,” Erdogan said.
Niinistö thanked the host for his gesture, but reminded that Sweden should also join the Alliance.
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“With the signings delivered today, the Turkish Parliament is starting the ratification process. Thank you very much. We have a neighbor – Sweden, and Finland’s accession to NATO cannot be complete without Sweden,” said the President of Finland.
(EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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