Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson speaks during the annual Society and Defence Conference in Salen, Sweden, January 8, 2023. TT News Agency/Henrik Montgomery via REUTERS
Reuters: Sweden Says Turkey Asking Too Much Over NATO Application
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Sweden is confident that Turkey will approve its application to join the NATO military alliance, but cannot fulfil all the conditions Ankara has set for its support, Sweden's prime minister said on Sunday.
"Turkey both confirms that we have done what we said we would do, but they also say that they want things that we cannot or do not want to give them," Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson told a defence think-tank conference in Sweden.
Finland and Sweden signed a three-way agreement with Turkey in 2022 aimed at overcoming Ankara's objections to their membership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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Update #1: Turkey 'wants things we can't give', says NATO hopeful Sweden -- Euronews/AFP
Update #2: Sweden 'can't meet' some of Turkey's demands for Nato bid -- Middle East Eye
WNU Editor: You can always count on Turkish President Erdogan to throw a monkey wrench in what European governments ar expecting. I still expect Sweden will be admitted into NATO, but Erdogan wants something in return.
5 comments:
Efdogan has them by the short and curlies he's no pushover and a great negotiator he's got much more out of them than they have of him.Negotiating skills?We could all lean from this guy ...respect
Wait Erdogan out. Let him go thru the election with nothing but a bad economy.
For those that don't know, this is how Sweden and Finland operate. Say all the right things, say they want something, and let the reason why they cannot do something fall on someone else. Cookie cutter example from their play book.
One of the many consequences of NATO overexpansion.
Turkiye knows that their conditions aren't meetable. Even if Sweden did hand over some (politically connected) Swedish-Kurdish elites, Erdogan would simply move the goalposts further.
It would be political suicide for any politician to allow Sweden to join NATO; you can't exclusively blame Erdogan's intransigence for this one.
No Turkish leader will ever put the country in a position where it's diplomatically obliged to share all military intelligence with (perceived PKK supporter) Sweden.
A one-foot-in-the-other-camp Turkiye with a million man army and globally important territory.
OR
A politically obedient Sweden with a non existent skeleton-crew "military".
Pick one. You can't have both.
Turkey does not have one foot in each camp. Turkey has been busting balls since 2003. This is not recent behavior.
Turks are people who are afraid to meet Henry Louis Gates Jr., because they will find out that they are more Greek than Turk. If they acknowledge the Kurds acknowledging their Greek half would be next. Turks already have anxiety over being non-Arab. The only solution they have come up with is to throw their weight around. that weight decreases every day.
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