Helsinki activists oppose the cooperation of the Finnish government with Erdogan’s administration
The representatives of Sweden, Finland and Turkey met on Friday in Helsinki to discuss the accession of the two Scandinavian countries to NATO. The negotiations were the first tripartite negotiations since the NATO summit held in Madrid at the end of June, where Sweden and Finland signed the declaration of commitment requested by Erdogan’s government.
As the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland announced after a meeting between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Interior and Justice, as well as representatives of the security and secret services of the three countries, “concrete measures to implement the memorandum” have been discussed, and another meeting will be arranged. takes place in the fall.
At the same time, in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Helsinki, members of the Finnish Kurdish Democracy (NCDK) and Finnish activists protested the Finnish government’s cooperation with Erdogan’s administration. Activists criticize the fact that Finland and Sweden want to sacrifice basic rights in order to join NATO.
Because of the dirty deal made at the expense of the Kurds, countries are ready to hand over Kurdish activists to the dictatorship and suppress the activities of legal Kurdish organizations.
The demonstrators demanded that Finland would under no circumstances give in to Erdogan’s dictatorial demands and that the decision to ban arms sales to Turkey be continued. The Turkish state’s brutal attacks in Kurdistan and its continued violation of international law were also condemned.