Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. File photoANKARA, May 22.Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu held telephone talks with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, the Turkish Foreign Ministry told RIA Novosti. Earlier, the Financial Times wrote that Turkey blocked the start of the process of considering the application for Finland and Sweden to join NATO. Erdogan said that Ankara cannot say «yes» to the membership of Finland and Sweden in NATO, because it cannot believe their assurances about relations 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.» Countries cannot be accepted into an alliance without the unanimous approval of all its members.»Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu held telephone talks with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Sunday,» Erdogan called the condition for supporting Sweden and Finland's accession to NATO. to a confrontation. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov stated that further expansion of the alliance would not bring greater security to Europe, NATO has an aggressive character. At the same time, he noted that he did not consider the entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO an existential threat to Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a conversation with Niiniste, noted that abandoning the traditional policy of military neutrality would be erroneous, since there are no threats to Finland's security. In his opinion, a change in the country's foreign policy may have a negative impact on Russian-Finnish relations, which for many years were built in the spirit of good neighborliness and partnership cooperation, were mutually beneficial. jpg» />Finland promised Turkey to closely monitor ties with the Kurdish PKK
