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Tsavousoglou: Open to talks with Finland and Sweden but support PKK

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoλουlu said his country was ready to discuss Sweden and Finland joining NATO, but described the two countries’ “unacceptable and outrageous” support for the Kurdish PKK, according to Reuters.

“Turkey has supported NATO ‘s open door policy from the beginning. Even when some people were against the accession of some countries in our region and in the Western Balkans, we supported their accession. But NATO is not a union or an international organization, it is an alliance. “The issue is not only security, but also solidarity, when the allies need it,” Tsavousoglou said as he attended a working dinner at an informal meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Berlin.

“The problem is that these two countries openly support and have relations with the PKK and the YPG. These two are terrorist organizations that attack our troops every day, even yesterday we lost a soldier on our territory,” Tsavousoglou continued. .

“Therefore, it is unacceptable and outrageous that our friends and allies are supporting terrorist organizations,” he added.

The Turkish Foreign Minister also stated that “due to Turkey’s fight against this terrorist organization, export restrictions have been imposed on the defense industry products that we import from our allies and some countries that are planning to join NATO.”

“That is why the vast majority of the Turkish people are against the accession of these countries and are asking us to prevent this accession,” he added.

However, he concluded that “these are issues that we need to discuss with our allies in NATO as well as with these countries.”

Source: Capital

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