Finland must stop “protecting” an organization that Turkey considers terrorist and take Turkey’s security concerns seriously if Ankara wants to admit it to NATO, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman said today in Finland. newspaper.
“The problem is not that Finland does not understand Turkey. Finland refuses to take Turkey’s security concerns seriously,” Turkish President’s Communications Director Fahrettin Altun told Finland’s largest newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat, via email.
Turkey has opposed the accession of Finland and Sweden to the Western Defense Alliance on the grounds that it sponsors members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and others it considers terrorists, and that Finland and Sweden have stopped exporting in Turkey in 2019.
Altun’s remarks echoed that of Erdogan’s chief foreign policy adviser, Ibrahim Kalin, to his US counterpart on Monday. Kalin called on the two Nordic countries to “take concrete measures against terrorist organizations that threaten Turkey’s national security”.
“Ultimately, the Finnish government will have to decide which is more important, NATO membership or the protection of such organizations,” Altun said in a statement to a Finnish newspaper.
SOURCE: AMPE
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