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- Turkey, Finland, Sweden and NATO - Workflow + (At a news conference on Monday, Mr Erdogan … At a news conference on Monday, Mr Erdogan said Turkey opposed the Finnish and the Swedish bids to join Nato, describing Sweden as a "hatchery" for terrorist organisations.</br></br>"Neither of these countries have a clear, open attitude towards terrorist organisation. How can we trust them?" the Turkish president said.</br></br>Turkey accuses the two Nordic nations of harbouring members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a group it views as a terrorist organisation, and followers of Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara accuses of orchestrating a 2016 coup attempt.</br></br>All member states must agree that a new country can join Nato, therefore Sweden and Finland require Turkey's support in their bid to join the military alliance.</br></br>Mr Erdogan said Swedish and Finnish delegations should not bother going to Ankara, Turkey's capital, to convince it to approve their Nato bid.</br></br>His government has also pledged to block applications from countries that have imposed sanctions on it.</br></br>In 2019, both Nordic nations slapped an arms embargo on Ankara after its incursion into Syria.</br></br>Mr Erdogan is indeed doing a bit of arm-twisting in the hopes that Sweden ends its open support of PKK allies. On Monday, Sweden said it would send a delegation to Turkey for Nato-related talks.</br></br>Even so, Mr Erdogan might also be looking for a more enticing offer. One possibility is that Ankara is hoping for military concessions from the US, such as re-entry into Washington’s F-35 fighter jet production process or F-16 sales, or a major financial commitment from Europe. a major financial commitment from Europe.)
