Türkiye is monitoring Sweden’s compliance with the deal for NATO’s bid: Erdogan
It is in the common interest of both Turkey and Sweden to prevent terrorist groups from taking the Nordic country’s attempt to join NATO hostage, says Turkish President Erdogan to Swedish Prime Minister Kristersson in a telephone conversation.
Ankara is monitoring Sweden’s commitment to an agreement they signed on the Nordic country’s bid to join NATO, Turkey’s president has told the Swedish prime minister in a phone call.
The trilateral agreement Turkey signed in June with Sweden and Finland will guide the process of these two countries’ potential NATO accession, with Ankara following statements coming from Stockholm, Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Ulf Kristersson on Wednesday, according to a Turkish Communications statement the directorate.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Ulf Kristersson that Ankara was monitoring statements from Stockholm about Sweden’s commitment to the agreement.
Erdogan said it is in the common interest of both Türkiye and Sweden to prevent terrorist groups from taking the Nordic country’s bid to join NATO, as well as its bilateral relations with Türkiye, hostage.
After a phone call with the Turkish president, Sweden’s new prime minister said his government would abide by a trilateral memorandum on its NATO accession.
Ulf Kristersson said on Twitter that his conversation with Recep Tayyip Erdogan was constructive and that he looked forward to visiting Ankara soon.
“My government will fulfill the trilateral memorandum between Türkiye, Finland, Sweden for #NATO accession,” Kristersson said.
Constructive telephone conversation with the President @RTErdogan Looking forward to visiting Ankara soon. My government will fulfill the trilateral memorandum between 🇹🇷🇫🇮🇸🇪 for #NATO connection.
— SwedishPM (@SwedishPM) 26 October 2022
Progress bilateral relations
They discussed relations between Turkey and Sweden during the call, and Erdogan congratulated Kristersson on his new role as prime minister.
In response to a letter from Kristersson on 19 October, Erdogan declared that he would welcome a visit to Türkiye by the new Swedish Prime Minister.
The Turkish leader said they were ready to promote bilateral relations with the Swedish government in all fields.
Finland and Sweden formally applied to join NATO in June, a decision spurred by Russia’s attack on Ukraine.
However, Turkey, which has been a member of NATO for over 70 years, raised objections to the membership bids and criticized the two countries for tolerating and even supporting terrorist groups.
The three countries signed a trilateral memorandum of understanding at the NATO summit in Madrid in June, which states that Finland and Sweden will not provide support to the PKK/YPG – the Syrian offshoot of the PKK terrorist group – or the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), the group. behind the publicly defeated 2016 coup in Turkey.
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Source: AA