Turkey claims win in NATO deal on Nordics

MADRID, 01 July 2022, (TON): The Latest on the final day of the NATO summit in Madrid “Turkey’s president is hailing his country’s joint memorandum with Sweden and Finland over their NATO accession as a victory.”

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said “all of Turkey’s sensitivities had been included in the 10-article agreement.”

The deal signed Tuesday removed Turkey’s objection to the Nordic countries’ NATO membership.

But Erdogan added that if Sweden and Finland did not fulfill their promises, Turkey could still block their membership by not ratifying the deal in the Turkish parliament.

Erdogan claimed after the NATO summit ended that Sweden had promised to extradite 73 terrorists to Turkey and crack down on the financing and recruitment activities of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and its extensions.

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