NATO Emblem. Archive photoMOSCOW, 11 Jun. The Finnish authorities have refused to hand over members of the Hizmet movement to Turkey, as required by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to approve the country's application for NATO membership, local newspaper Ilta-Sanomat writes. «Finland did not agree to hand over to Turkey people who, according to representatives of the country, were associated with the Gülen movement or the PKK Kurdish organization, recognized as a terrorist organization in Turkey,” the publication says. : What threatens the entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO? Finland extradited two people. At the same time, according to media reports, they had nothing to do with terrorism. Sweden and Finland started talking about the possibility of joining the North Atlantic Alliance against the backdrop of a Russian special operation in Ukraine and submitted an application for entry on May 18. Turkey, in turn, blocked the process of considering it. The President of the Republic, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said that he had imposed a veto because of the position of Stockholm and Helsinki towards the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Turkey. Russia has repeatedly noted that NATO is aimed at confrontation. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that further expansion of the bloc would not bring greater security to Europe. At the same time, he emphasized that he does not consider the entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO an existential threat to Russia. Vladimir Putin is sure that abandoning Finland's traditional policy of military neutrality would be erroneous, since there are no threats to its security.
Another opponent of Sweden's entry into NATO has become known
