An EUObserver publication refers to her stance Turkey and obstacles which recreates in accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO. According to EUObserver, Western diplomats and analysts are beginning to wonder what Ankara is ultimately after.
“For its part, the Swedish government takes seriously the implementation of the Memorandum” as he stated in EUobserver the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs referring to agreement concluded in June with Turkey, with which the country pledged to “hunt down” Kurdish terrorists in exchange for Turkey’s positive stance on possible NATO membership. In fact, according to the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, there will be further tripartite meetings in the near future.
However, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Mevlut Cavusogluonce again poses problems and obstacles by warning that the Parliament of Turkey will not approve the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO, because – as he claims – “so far no concrete measures have been taken” neither by Stockholm nor by Helsinki in relation to the agreement with Turkey.
Turkey’s stance has alarmed international analystsas Finland and Sweden wish to join NATO to protect themselves from Russian aggression amid war on the European continent.
The contradiction and attitude of Turkey becomes even more noticeable as already 24 of the 30 NATO members have ratified the accession process in their own parliaments.
In the same matter, Handelsblatt emphasizes that “Turkey threatens to create trouble while Greece agrees to join. The Greek parliament approved the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO by a large majority on Thursday.
In fact, the German Handelsblatt points out that Turkey has again asked Sweden and Finland to extradite “terrorist suspects”. “So far, Finland and Sweden have not extradited a single person,” Turkey’s Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said on Thursday. Finland and Sweden should keep their “promise” in Ankara. According to Turkey, Sweden has promised to extradite more than 70 “terrorists”, but this has not been officially recorded in the relevant memorandum signed recently.
Source: News Beast
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