Erdogan: We can not say ‘yes’ to Finland-Sweden NATO membership

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“We can not say ‘yes’ to Finland and Sweden joining NATO,” Erdogan said today, blaming Germany and France for saying “PKK / YPG terrorists are protesting” in those countries.

Defending his objections to Finland and Sweden joining NATO, the Turkish president told reporters after Friday prayers that these countries “said they consider the PKK a terrorist organization, so why not consider the YPG (Syrian Kurds) a terrorist organization.” “The YPG is a terrorist organization born of the PKK. Even the United States gives them many opportunities to negotiate. These terrorist organizations are holding all kinds of demonstrations, especially in Germany, Sweden and France.”

“We also told them in bilateral meetings and presented documents. Look, these are terrorist organizations, their crimes are obvious,” Erdogan said.

The fact that they made the Qandil their center is undoubtedly a sign that it is terrorism, but the West unfortunately hides it, the Turkish president added. “When we say ‘give us these terrorists’, they do not give them to us,” he said, adding that “we will continue to do what is necessary.”

According to the Cyprus News Agency, the Turkish President stated that “since we have documents and information about these terrorist organizations, once we know NATO’s sensitivities against terrorism and once we recognize that NATO is a security organization, we do not “We can say ‘yes’ to the membership of a terrorist organization in NATO. I say that for Sweden and Finland. But also in the parliaments of most EU member states they give speeches and give them a step or supply them with weapons and ammunition.”

The Turkish president said he would speak by telephone tomorrow, Saturday, with North Atlantic Treaty Organization leader Jens Stoltenberg.