“I am happy to announce that the President Erdogan has agreed to grant entry to the Sweden in the Nato as soon as possible”. The NATO secretary general said so Jens Stoltenberg at the end of the trilateral meeting with the leaders of Sweden e Türkiye on the eve of the Atlantic Alliance summit a Vilnius. “I just had a constructive meeting with President Erdogan and the Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. I am pleased to announce that, as a result, President Erdogan has agreed to broadcast the Accession protocol for Sweden to Grand National Assembly as soon as possible,” Stoltenberg added. The green light from the Parliament of Ankara it is the necessary step to proceed with Stockholm’s entry into NATO.
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Erdogan’s Blackmail – The announcement comes as a surprise, after the condition set by the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the eve of the summit of the Nato a Vilnius which seemed to close any assumptions of agreement: “First, let’s pave the way for the Türkiye nell’European Union and then we pave the way for the Sweden as we did with the Finland“. A blackmail, that of Erdogan, to which the spokeswoman of the EU Commission had unequivocally replied, Dana Spinantspecifying that there are two themes and two paths altogether parallels. “It is no surprise to say that the two processes are separated – he said – The EU has a very structured process of enlargement, and the different steps must be fulfilled by each candidate. It is a process that looks at the merits. This process cannot be linked” to that of the accession of the Sweden in the Nato. “I due processes they can only be separated”.
The reasons for Ankara’s coldness – To push the resistances of the Türkiye on the entrance Of Stockholman alleged leniency towards the Kurdish militants refugees on its soil, which is why Ankara calls for a distance from terrorism and the extradition of some suspected militants. Erdogan has also relaunched his country’s entry into Ue in his telephone conversation with his US counterpart Joe Bidenin which he stated that the Sweden took “correct steps” to join the Alliance by approving recent anti-terrorism amendments, but these “were thwarted by demonstrations crowds of sympathizers of the terrorist group Pkk“. The Turkish president also added that “i progress of the process for the entrance of the Sweden in the Nato depend on the application of the principles understood with the memorandum trilateral“, referring to the agreement made between AnkaraStockholm e Helsinki on the eve of the NATO summit in June 2022 for the accession of Sweden e Finland in the Alliance.
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