Finland accused Turkish President Erdogan of renewing his opposition as a response to Kurdish protests in Sweden, where demonstrators burned an effigy of him.
in May after Russia invaded Ukraine and changed the security apparatus in Europe. Turkey immediately expressed reservations over the applications regarding support for Kurdish militants whom Turkey considers terrorists.
"For as long as Tayyip Erdogan is the head of the Republic of Turkey, we definitely cannot say 'yes' to countries which support terrorism entering NATO," Erdogan told reporters shortly after his initial comments. But Sweden in the past two weeks has said that it could not and would not meet Turkey’s demands, Euronews reported. Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto alleged that Erdogan’s renewed opposition followed an incident in Stockholm last week in which Kurdish protesters burned an effigy of the Turkish leader, saying,"This must have been a reaction, I believe, to the events of the past days.
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