Finland and Sweden should stop supporting the PKK/YPG terrorist organisation, Türkiye's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says as he arrives in Berlin to attend NATO foreign ministers' informal meeting
Türkiye's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says it is unacceptable and outrageous that our friends and allies are supporting PKK terror group.
In a doorstep statement on Saturday ahead of an informal NATO foreign ministers' meeting in Berlin, Cavusoglu said Türkiye has always backed NATO's open-door policy. "Therefore, it is unacceptable and outrageous that our friends and allies are supporting this terrorist organisation. And because of our fight against this terrorist organisation, there have been export restrictions on the defence industry products that we are importing from allies and some countries that are planning to be a member of NATO," he said.
Sweden and Finland are gearing up to apply for membership in the transatlantic military alliance in response to what they see as a fundamentally altered security situation due to Russia's incursion into Ukraine.
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