Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu held a joint press conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who came to Ankara. declarationTurkey expects Sweden and Finland to fulfill their obligations under the Madrid Memorandum.
The memorandum, signed on 28 June, included written assurances not to support terrorist organizations, including the PKK and an organization affiliated with Islamic preacher and writer Fethullah Gülen in Ankara, as well as an arms embargo and sanctions against the Turkish defense industry.
Çavuşoğlu also told reporters that Turkey is negotiating with several NATO member states on the possibility of a separate consideration of Finland’s application.
Formerly at the Finnish Ministry of Defense declarationIt is better for NATO that Helsinki and Stockholm join the alliance together rather than individually.