{"id":46507,"date":"2022-05-21T11:30:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T06:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/?p=46507"},"modified":"2022-05-21T02:43:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T21:43:21","slug":"turkey-to-reject-sweden-and-finlands-bid-to-join-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/top-news\/turkey-to-reject-sweden-and-finlands-bid-to-join-nato\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey to reject Sweden and Finland&#8217;s bid to join NATO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA \u2013 May 20 (ONLINE) Turkey has told allies that it will reject Sweden and Finland&#8217;s membership to NATO, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said in a video posted on his Twitter account on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Finland and Sweden formally applied on Wednesday to join U.S.-led NATO, a decision spurred by Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine. Turkey&#8217;s objections have come as a surprise to the other members of the alliance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will continue our policy in a determined way. We have told allies that we will say no to Finland and Sweden&#8217;s NATO membership,&#8221; Erdogan said in an interview with students late on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Turkish president said Sweden and Finland harbour and finance \u201cterrorists\u201d and supplies them with weapons, repeating Ankara&#8217;s accusation that the countries supports groups that it deems terrorists, namely the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group and Syrian Kurdish YPG, which it also views as a terrorist group closely tied to the PKK.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;NATO is a security alliance and we cannot accept terrorists to be in it,&#8221; Erdogan also said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA \u2013 May 20 (ONLINE) Turkey has told allies that it will reject Sweden and Finland&#8217;s membership to NATO, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said in a video posted on his Twitter account on Thursday. 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