ANKARA, Jan 14 ― Turkey is running out of time to ratify Nato membership bids by Sweden and Finland before it holds elections expected in May, a Turkish presidential spokesman...
ANKARA, Jan 14 ― Turkey is running out of time to ratify Nato membership bids by Sweden and Finland before it holds elections expected in May, a Turkish presidential spokesman said on Saturday.
“Stockholm is fully committed to implementing the agreement that was signed last year in Madrid, but the country needs six more months to write new laws that would allow the judicial system to implement the new definitions of terrorism,” Kalin told a news conference in Istanbul. Ankara has said Sweden needed to take a clearer stance against what it sees as terrorists, mainly Kurdish militants and the organisation it blames for a 2016 coup attempt.
Kalin said the Swedish government needed to send a clear message to “terrorist organisations that Sweden is no longer a safe haven for them and that they will not be able to collect money, recruit members, and engage in other activities”.
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