Erdogan discussed with the leaders of Sweden and Finland

Recep Tayyip Erdogan 's accession to NATO

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, during a telephone conversation with Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson and Finnish President Sauli Niinistö, said that support for representatives of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which Ankara considers a terrorist organization, is unacceptable.

According to the press service of the Turkish President on Twitter, in a conversation with Andersson, Erdogan declared full support for NATO's open door policy. He called on Sweden to stop financial and military support for Kurdish groups and take concrete steps in this direction.

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The same issues were discussed with the President of Finland, Anadolu agency reports. "Turkey has a 'most natural right' to count on support for its legitimate struggle against an open threat to national security," Erdogan said.

In addition to supporting the Kurds, Erdogan also accuses the Scandinavian countries of providing political asylum to supporters of the preacher Fethullah Gülen, whom the Turkish authorities suspect of organizing a military coup attempt in the summer of 2016.

Erdogan also demanded that Sweden lift the restrictions imposed on Turkey due to the military operation "Source of Peace". The operation took place in the fall of 2019, it was directed against the Kurdish formations of the YPG ("People's Protection Units") in northern Syria. As a result of the operation, Turkey created a 30-kilometer security line on its border with Syria, and the Kurdish formations were forced to retreat inland. On October 22, Russia and Turkey signed a memorandum of understanding. The document contains ten paragraphs. Among the points of the document is an agreement on joint patrolling of the border to the west and east of the area of ​​operation "Source of Peace".