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title: "Turkey: Not Favourable on Finland & Sweden Joining NATO"
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**Could be a problem for NATO? Unless concessions are made? Turkey’s issue with the Nordic nations is not because Russia is favoured.**

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![](https://i0.wp.com/pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/image-7.png?resize=538%2C358&ssl=1)> **President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday it was not possible for NATO-member Turkey to support plans by Sweden and Finland to join the pact given that the Nordic countries were “home to many terrorist organisations”.**
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> **Turkey has repeatedly slammed Sweden and other Western European countries for its handling of organisations deemed terrorist by Ankara, including the Kurdish militant groups PKK and YPG, and the followers of U.S.-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen**. Ankara says Gulenists carried out a coup attempt in 2016. Gulen and his supporters deny the accusation.
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> “***We are following the developments regarding Sweden and Finland, but we don’t hold positive views,”*** Erdogan told reporters in Istanbul
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> Scandinavian countries are guesthouses for terrorist organisations,” Erdogan said, without giving details.
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> Aaron Stein, research director at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, said on Twitter with respect to Turkish opposition: ***“Turkish national security elites view Finland and Sweden as semi-hostile, given the presence of PKK and Gulenists. It’s gonna take arm twisting to get sign-off.”***
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> Finland and Sweden are already NATO’s closest partners, sitting in on many meetings, getting regularly briefed on the situation in Ukraine and taking part in regular military drills with NATO allies. Much of their military equipment is inter-operable with NATO allies.
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> However, **they cannot benefit from NATO’s collective defence clause – that an attack on one ally is an attack on all – until they join the alliance.**

**All NATO members have to agree or this will not pass. Expect the US to engage in strenuous arm twisting.** **Or give up their PKK pals?**