MOSCOW, May 29. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he was dissatisfied with the results of negotiations with Swedish and Finnish delegations on the issue of countries joining NATO, his words are quoted by the TRT channel. «Unfortunately, the meeting of the delegations was not at the level we expected,» the head of state said. Erdogan reproached Finland and Sweden for being » dishonest and insincere» and accused the latter of «protecting terrorists». «As long as Erdogan is President of Turkey, we definitely cannot say yes to the entry into NATO of countries that support terrorism,» he added. .jpg» />Erdogan forces Finland and Sweden to public humiliationEarlier, 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 the alliance without the unanimous approval of all its members. Russia has repeatedly noted that NATO is aimed at confrontation. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that further expansion of the alliance would not bring greater security to Europe, since the bloc has an aggressive character. At the same time, he noted that he does not consider the entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO an existential threat to Russia.
