Turkey rejects NATO invitation to meet with Finland and Sweden on NATO membership

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said that NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg suggested holding a meeting of the foreign ministers of Turkey, Finland and Sweden.

In response to his proposal, Ankara stated that without responding to the conditions of the Turkish authorities on the issue, “the meeting is meaningless.”

On May 18, Finland and Sweden submitted requests to NATO to join the alliance. Turkey blocked the start of the review process for these applications.

Ankara calls on the Scandinavian countries to “take concrete steps in the fight against terrorist organizations.” After they refused to extradite to Turkey representatives of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, which the Turkish side considers a terrorist and has been pursuing its members since 1984, and supporters of the Gülenist terrorist movement, the organization of the former preacher Fethullah Gülen, accused by Turkish forces. Attempted coup in 2016.

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