Media: US and Britain called on Sweden and Finland to accept Turkey's demands

NATO headquarters building in Brussels. File photoANKARA, Jun 2The United States and Britain in behind-the-scenes negotiations insist that Sweden and Finland satisfy Ankara's concerns about their membership in NATO, the Hurriyet newspaper writes on Thursday. Finland and Sweden, against the backdrop of events in Ukraine on May 18, handed over to the NATO Secretary General applications to join the alliance. Turkey has blocked the start of the process of consideration of these applications. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said that Ankara cannot say «yes» to Finland and Sweden's membership in NATO, as it cannot believe their assurances about relations with representatives of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party in Turkey.China named four countermeasures of Russia in response to NATO expansion»The main issue on the agenda of the meeting of the General Assembly of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, held in Lithuania, was the membership of Sweden and Finland in NATO. that European politicians have similar views on solving Turkey's problems and call for reconciliation.According to the information provided, especially the United States and Great Britain lobbied Sweden and Finland to satisfy Turkey's sensitivity.Turkish parliamentarians present at the meeting said that many foreign parliamentarians consider Turkey's demands justified. At the meetings, it became known that NATO's top leadership stated that Turkey's demands were justified,» the newspaper writes. Russia has repeatedly noted that NATO is aimed at 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. Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that abandoning Finland's traditional policy of military neutrality would be erroneous, since there are no threats to its security. Unexpected protest. Who in NATO was not happy with the Finns and Swedes