Erdogan Suggests Turkey Could Accept Finland Into NATO Without Sweden | Turkish Minister Speech Live

Erdogan Suggests Turkey Could Accept Finland Into NATO Without Sweden | Turkish Minister Speech Live

Turkey could evaluate Finland's NATO bid separately from that of Sweden, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday(January 30), after protests including the burning of a Koran in Stockholm sparked outrage in Ankara.

"It is a fair approach to set a difference between a problematic country and a less problematic one. We can evaluate (Finnish and Swedish) NATO applications separately if NATO and those countries make a decision about it," Cavusoglu said.

Sweden and Finland applied last year to join NATO following Russia's invasion of Ukraine and need all member countries' approval to join. Turkey and Hungary are yet to ratify the Nordic countries' membership.

President Tayyip Erdogan has thrust the debate over NATO expansion into a campaign ahead of Turkey's tight presidential and parliamentary elections in May, rallying his supporters.

Turkey is never against NATO's expansion, Cavusoglu added. But the steps taken by Sweden according to a trilateral agreement signed last year are not enough, he said.

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[Merry_Christmas_today]

I am sure that all NATO countries are getting tired of Turkey's hassles, the other NATO countries have started talking about excluding Turkey from NATO

[cuonglemanh]

I Wan't "A sorry word From Sweden " .I don't watch a movie

[lmao]

Finland ans Sweden has a military allience. Finland wont join without sweden.

[TonyMontana-lmjo]

European it’s only when they suits them to respect other religions.clearly double standard from Argentina 🇦🇷 respect turkey 🇹🇷 people and they politicians

[bambamkitring]

Sweden should blame Paludan for this...

[johanberglund]

Turkey really has an ace in its sleeve here which is highly powerful. But using it also comes with a price. As the discussion goes in Scandinavian countries, Turkey will never be allowed into the EU after this. The problem is that once an EU member, Turkey will veto things continously and demand stuff thereby stalling EU completely. So best that we use our veto to block it from entering. To think Sweden and Finland will vote Turkey into EU if we are not allowed into NATO is not really realistic.

[serhatkorkmaz]

Read to the end Please: As a Turkish citizen, I fully support what my country is doing. My country is mostly made up of Muslims. As Muslims, we have never been radical towards other people's Islamophobic attitudes. Our religion has never been a religion that tolerates attacking other religions, as many Christians think. In fact, there is a verse in one of the chapters of the Qur'an that we read the most: "Say: Your religion is for you and mine is for me." While all this is obvious, the Swedish government is trying to protect a person who burns a book that billions of people consider sacred and who openly insults Islam by calling it "freedom of thought". Such is your conception of freedom. Tell me, could that man have burned the Bible, the holy book of the Christians, in the same way? You are two faced.

[nissekarlsson]

Sweden shall stop all aid to Turkiya and stop financing Turkish railroad and stop all fund to islamic countries, in africa and middle east....and India...

[nas]

Very well done Sir so proud of you being good Muslim and just looking after your people but also the Muslim Ummah ☪️

[WillieBrownsWeiner]

Unlike most of our eurotrash partners Turkey actually has a military worth talking about because she hasn't spent 30 years allowing the US to subsidize their defense.