Turkey rejected NATO’s (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) proposal to hold a trilateral meeting with Sweden and Finland to resolve the two countries’ accession to the Alliance, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday 15th.
Ankara is vetoing the participation of nations for allegedly supporting “Kurdish terrorist organizations”, an ethnic group that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has attacked for years, both in the political-election and regional arenas. The accusation has always been denied by the two Scandinavian governments, who said they never financed terrorists in the region.
The representative could also ask for a “concrete proposal” to resolve the stalemate in a phone call to NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg.
Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said at Wednesday’s NATO meeting that the documents sent so far from Stockholm and Helsinki “do not meet Turkey’s expectations.”
The diplomatic mission by the two countries to Ankara on 25 May also failed due to the Erdogan government’s resistance to accept their membership in the Alliance.
Sweden and Finland have formally requested to join NATO, fearing that Russia might launch an invasion of their own territory similar to the one carried out in Ukraine.
The two countries, who have always remained neutral on such matters, feel threatened by Vladimir Putin and also want to take advantage of Article 5, which says that an attack on any member of the group is an act against all.
The Russian leader has already said that the presence of the two countries in the Alliance is a “threat” to the country.
source: Noticias
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