ISTANBUL, May 14 — Turkey has not shut the door to Sweden and Finland joining Nato but wants negotiations with the Nordic countries and a clampdown on what it sees as terrorist activities especially in Stockholm, President Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman said on Saturday.
Any country seeking to join the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance needs the unanimous support of the members of the military alliance. The United States and other member states have been trying to clarify Ankara’s position. Kalin said the militant Kurdistan Workers Party — designated a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and the European Union — was fund-raising and recruiting in Europe and its presence is “strong and open and acknowledged” in Sweden in particular.
For years it has criticised Sweden and other European countries for their handling of organisations deemed terrorists by Turkey, including the followers of US-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen.
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