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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan mentioned he isn’t Finland and Sweden becoming a member of NATO “positively,” accusing each counties of housing Kurdish “terrorist organizations.”
“We’re following the developments however don’t view it positively,” Erdoğan mentioned in a presser following Friday prayers in Istanbul.
“Sadly, Scandinavian international locations are like guesthouses of terror organizations,” Erdoğan alleged. “PKK and DHKP-C have taken shelter in Sweden and Netherlands. They’ve even taken place of their parliaments. At this stage, it’s not attainable for us to see this positively.”
The PKK, or Kurdistan Employee’s Get together, which seeks an impartial state in Turkey, has been in an armed wrestle with Turkey for many years and has been designated a terrorist group by Turkey, america and the EU.
DHKP-C is an excessive left group hostile to the Turkish state, america and NATO.
Sweden’s Minister of International Affairs Ann Linde responded, saying that “the Turkish authorities has not delivered this type of message on to us.”
“My Turkish overseas minister colleague, with whom I’ve an excellent and constructive relationship, is coming to this weekend’s casual NATO overseas ministers’ assembly in Berlin, the place each Sweden and Finland have been invited,” Linde mentioned.
“We are going to then have the chance to speak to one another a few attainable Swedish NATO software, and I hope that we’ll proceed to obtain optimistic messages from all 30 NATO international locations. Lots of the 30 allies have publicly expressed very robust help for Sweden and Finland,” she added.
NATO overseas ministers are assembly in Germany on Saturday, and Finnish, Swedish, and Turkish ministers of overseas affairs could have the chance to debate Turkey’s response.
CNN has reached out to the Netherlands for remark, and it has but to reply.
Turkish Minister of International Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu spoke to NATO Secretary Common Jens Stoltenberg on Friday, in response to Turkey’s state-run information company Anadolu.