“Got What It Wanted”: Turkey Agrees To Back Sweden, Finland’s Bid To Join NATO
Turkey “were given what it wanted” from Sweden and Finland earlier than agreeing to again their drives to enroll in the NATO defence alliance, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s workplace stated on Tuesday.
“Turkey has made widespread profits withinside the combat in opposition to terrorist organisations,” stated the Turkish statement, adding: “Turkey were given what it wanted.”
The Nordic international locations agreed to “cooperate completely with Turkey in its combat in opposition to the PKK” and different Kurdish militant groups, stated the statement.
They have additionally agreed to raise their embargoes on guns deliveries to Turkey, which had been imposed in reaction to Ankara’s 2019 navy incursion into Syria.
The international locations will ban “fundraising and recruitment activities” for the Kurdish militants, and “save you terrorist propaganda in opposition to Turkey,” Erdogan’s workplace stated.
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has been waging a decades-lengthy insurgency in opposition to the Turkish nation that has claimed tens of lots of lives.
The PKK is certain as a terrorist business enterprise with the aid of using Ankara and maximum of its Western allies.
But the institution’s Syrian offshoot, the YPG, has been an essential participant withinside the US-led worldwide alliance in opposition to the Islamic State institution in Syria.
