Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. File photoANKARA, Jun 13Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will say at the NATO summit in Madrid that Turkey will not compromise its position on «terrorist-supporting countries,» the Turkish leader's office said. Finland and Sweden, against the background of the 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 PKK, banned in Turkey.
Erdogan forces Finland and Sweden to public humiliation»The Communications Department under the Turkish presidential administration will hold a discussion in Brussels on June 17, which will discuss «the future of NATO after the war in Ukraine.» The panel will make it possible to convey Turkey's theses to the whole world, using the possibilities of public diplomacy. NATO, which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will attend on June 28-30, the Communications Directorate will hold a discussion in Madrid on June 28 to inform the international community.President Erdogan is expected to stress at the NATO summit that «Turkey will not compromise on its countries that support terrorism and terrorist organizations,» the office said. Moscow has repeatedly noted that the alliance is aimed at confrontation. As the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov emphasized, further expansion of the bloc will not bring greater security to Europe. At the same time, he does not consider the entry of Sweden and Finland to this organization existents ial threat to Russia. Vladimir Putin himself noted that abandoning the traditional policy of Helsinki's military neutrality would be erroneous, since there are no threats to Finland. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. Russian President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as of March 25, the Armed Forces completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
