Sweden takes Türkiye’s demands seriously: prime minister
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AA): Sweden wants Türkiye to know Stockholm takes its concerns seriously and will take steps to address them, the Swedish prime minister has said.
“The Swedish government took seriously Türkiye’s demands and showed its will to fulfill them,” Ulf Kristersson told Swedish public broadcaster SVT. “It is important that Türkiye is convinced and certain of what we said and what we did,” he added.
Türkiye has agreed to send Sweden’s NATO Accession Protocol to its parliament following a trilateral meeting, the alliance’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, told a news conference in Lithuania on Monday where 31 leaders of the military alliance have gathered for a two-day summit.
In a joint statement following the meeting, Sweden reiterated that it will not support the Kurdish nationalist group YPG/PKK which is considered a “terrorist” organization by Turkiye, nor Fetullah Gulen’s social movement which is also considered a threat by Erdogan.
New members of NATO must get unanimous agreement from all the current members. Türkiye has been a NATO member for over 70 years, and possesses its second-largest army.
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