Meeting with Turkish PM Erdogan ‘positive’: Swedish PM
STOCKHOLM – Negotiations with Turkiye on Sweden’s membership to NATO will take some more time, the Swedish prime minister has said.
Magdalena Andersson said that her meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was “good and positive.”
“Sweden and Finland will continue bilateral and tripartite negotiations with Turkiye in the near future but these will take some time,” she said.
Stressing that she was looking forward to the upcoming negotiations with Ankara, Andersson said Sweden is one of the first countries that classified the PKK as ‘terrorists’ in line with the Turkish policy.
Sweden and Finland formally applied to join NATO last week — a decision spurred by Russia’s war on Ukraine, which began on February 24.
But Turkiye, a longstanding member of the alliance, has voiced objections to the membership bids, criticizing the countries for tolerating and even supporting the PKK and its subsidiary groups that Turkiye considers as ‘terrorist’.
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