NATO headquarters building in Brussels. File photo ANKARA, May 18 Sweden will not be able to join NATO until Turkey's legitimate concerns are resolved, Fahrettin Altun, head of the Turkish presidential administration's communications department, wrote in an op-ed for the Swedish newspaper Expressen. Finland and Sweden handed over NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg applications to join the alliance on Wednesday.Erdogan forces Finland and Sweden to public humiliation»Terrorist-targeted countries such as Turkey are working hard to eliminate these double standards. Given this history, it would be unacceptable for Turkey to watch Sweden try to join NATO without reconsidering its position.From Turkey's point of view, fighting such people who pose as political asylum seekers for the Swedish people, despite the fact that they were involved in crimes against innocent people in Turkey, is a sine qua non of the alliance,» writes Altun in his article. He expressed confidence that «the Swedish people would feel the same as the Turks feel today if the Turkish government harbored the terrorist organization responsible for the attack in Stortorget.» «We are certainly glad that Sweden is not threatened by such a terrorist threat, but I «I want to make it very clear that Sweden will not be able to join NATO until Turkey's legitimate concerns are resolved. If Sweden expects NATO's second largest army to defend it in the event of an attack, it must accept that fact.» The article says. Earlier, the Financial Times newspaper reported that Turkey blocked the start of the process of considering the application for Finland and Sweden to join NATO. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that Ankara cannot say yes to Finland and Sweden's membership in NATO because it cannot believe their assurances of ties with representatives of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, banned in Turkey. If Turkey agrees, NATO, according to Erdogan, «will not be a security organization, but will become a place where there will be many representatives of terrorists.» very NATO. What will happen if the Swedes and Finns join an alliance
