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Ahead of the upcoming Nato summit that will be taking place in spain, the office of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that his administration will not compromise it proposed requirements that the two Nordic countries must have before being part of the bloc.
Ankara has strictly maintained its position in opposing Sweden and Finland in joining the Nato, the office said it will make two public events before the summit that'll be held in Madrid to clarify their stance. According to the office Erdogan will say that " Turkey will not compromise on its stance towards countries that support terrorism and terrorist organisations" during the key meeting holding on the 28-30, this information was reported by the Turkish media.
According to the Turkish media one of the events will take place in Brussels on Friday and the other will take place on the sidelines of the main summit in Spain.
The two Nordic nations requested to join the US-led military bloc in late May, citing Russia's special military operation in Ukraine as the main reason, this is a historical move as the two countries have maintained neutrality since the cold war era, Moscow showed concern over the decisions of the two Nordic countries and announced that Sweden and Finland were damaging their national security by formally applying to be a member of an organisation that the Russian Federation views as a hostile.
However the ascension of the two countries into the military bloc has been delayed by one of the main members of the bloc, Turkey has said it will not allow the two nations join the alliance because they see the two countries as a terrorist harbouring country whose activities is detrimental to the people of Turkey, citing the Kurdish militant movement and the Kurdish militias who are based in Syria and Iraq as a terrorist organisation that are encouraged by the Nordic countries.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg acknowledged that Turkey's resistance to the proposed enlargement came as a shock to him.
"Earlier in the process we had no reason to believe there would be any problem in the process". He told the financial times on Monday. The government Sweden and Finland have agreed to toughen their anti-terrorist law in accordance with the Turkish government but have refused to extradite the people deemed as terrorist by Ankara.
The Turkish government said it won't allow such ascension into the US-led bloc until it concerns are properly addressed.
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