Sweden’s foreign minister says NATO talks with Turkiye progressing well

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu (R) meets Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom (L) in Ankara, Turkiye on December 22, 2022. [Murat Gök - Anadolu Agency]

Talks between Sweden and Turkiye are progressing well and Stockholm hopes Ankara will ratify the Nordic country's NATO application well before an alliance summit in July, Sweden's foreign minister said on Thursday, Reuters reports. Sweden and Finland applied in May to join NATO in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but ran into objections from Turkiye which accused the Nordic countries of harbouring militants, including from the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). "Things are progressing well, we had an excellent meeting today," Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom told Reuters after meeting Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Ankara. At a press conference after the meeting Cavusoglu acknowledged that Sweden had taken steps to meet conditions spelt out in a memorandum between the three countries but […] Source

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