{"id":115,"date":"2023-07-10T15:07:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T15:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/world\/turkey-to-back-swedens-nato-bid-in-return-for-eu-membership-erdogan-such-tv\/"},"modified":"2023-07-10T15:07:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T15:07:09","slug":"turkey-to-back-swedens-nato-bid-in-return-for-eu-membership-erdogan-such-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/world\/turkey-to-back-swedens-nato-bid-in-return-for-eu-membership-erdogan-such-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey to back Sweden\u2019s NATO bid in return for EU membership: Erdogan &#8211; SUCH TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he would back Sweden\u2019s NATO candidacy if the European Union resumes long-stalled membership talks with Ankara.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cFirst, open the way to Turkey\u2019s membership of the European Union, and then we will open it for Sweden, just as we had opened it for Finland,\u201d Erdogan said in a televised media appearance on Monday, before departing for the NATO summit in Lithuania.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis is what I told\u201d US President Joe Biden, the Turkish leader said when the pair spoke by phone on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Erdogan also said Sweden\u2019s accession hinges on the implementation of a deal reached last June during the alliance\u2019s summit in Madrid, adding that no one should expect compromises from Ankara.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sweden and Finland applied for NATO membership last year, abandoning their policies of military non-alignment due to Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While Finland was given the green light in April, Turkey wants Sweden to crack down on groups that it deems national security threats, including the Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party (PKK).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It wants the extradition of what it calls \u201cterrorists\u201d to be returned to Turkey from Sweden and a lift of the arms ban Stockholm imposes on Ankara.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to international media reports, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said while he supports Ankara\u2019s EU membership, as far as he was concerned, Sweden had already met the conditions required to join NATO.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt is still possible to have a positive decision on Sweden in Vilnius,\u201d Stoltenberg told a news conference.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">German Chancellor Olaf Scholz also said Turkey\u2019s stance is a positive development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI hope that soon Sweden will be able to become a NATO member,\u201d Scholz said in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkey first applied to be a member of the European Economic Community \u2013 a predecessor to the EU \u2013 in 1987.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It became an EU candidate country in 1999 and formally launched membership negotiations with the bloc in 2005.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The talks stalled in 2016 over European concerns about human rights violations in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.suchtv.pk\/world\/item\/120570-turkey-to-back-sweden-s-nato-bid-in-return-for-eu-membership-erdogan.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he would back Sweden\u2019s NATO candidacy if the European Union resumes long-stalled membership talks with Ankara. \u201cFirst, open the way to Turkey\u2019s membership of the European Union, and then we will open it for Sweden, just as we had opened it for Finland,\u201d Erdogan said in a televised&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/world\/turkey-to-back-swedens-nato-bid-in-return-for-eu-membership-erdogan-such-tv\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Turkey to back Sweden\u2019s NATO bid in return for EU membership: Erdogan &#8211; 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