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For Erdogan, Blocking Sweden's NATO Bid May Be Perfect For His Reelection Campaign
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For Erdogan, Blocking Sweden's NATO Bid May Be Perfect For His Reelection ...
How NATO got involved in the Turkish election campaign: Erdogan and Bahceli want the Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections from June to May and are ...
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How NATO got involved in the Turkish election campaign
Sweden plans to join NATO: Erdoğan threatens permanent blockade: Turkey wants to permanently block Sweden's NATO membership after burning the Koran ...
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Sweden plans to join NATO: Erdoğan threatens permanent blockade
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Nato accession: Turkey will make Sweden wait even longer: Turkey has been finding new reasons to block Sweden's Nato accession for months ...
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Nato accession: Turkey will make Sweden wait even longer
Erdogan warns Sweden on NATO after Koran burning: Erdogans furious comments further distanced the prospects of Sweden and Finland joining the Western defence ...
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Erdogan warns Sweden on NATO after Koran burning
Turkey postpones Nato talks with Sweden and Finland – what happens now?: Turkey further dented Sweden and Finland's hopes of joining Nato after it ...
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Turkey postpones Nato talks with Sweden and Finland – what happens now?
Erdoğan's election games with NATO and Sweden: The president is already in campaign mode: he is blocking NATO expansion and putting approval for Sweden's ...
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Erdoğan's election games with NATO and Sweden
Turkey postpones NATO meeting with Sweden, Finland: Turkey has indefinitely postponed a new round of talks with Sweden and Finland on the Nordic neighbors’ NATO ...
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Turkey postpones NATO meeting with Sweden, Finland
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Sweden's NATO accession: Erdoğan is not concerned with Sweden: Sweden was due to join NATO this week. But Turkey is blocking the expansion ...
zeit.de/politik/ausland/2023-11/schwedens-nato-beitritt-tuerkei-blockade-islam
Sweden's NATO accession: Erdoğan is not concerned with Sweden
Turkey will back Sweden's NATO bid if U.S. keeps promise on F-16 sale - Erdogan: Turkey's parliament will keep its promise to ratify Sweden's NATO bid if U.S ...
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Turkey will back Sweden's NATO bid if U.S. keeps promise on F-16 sale - ...
Key FactsTurkey to Support Sweden's NATO Bid with F-16 Sale
Sep 26, 2023 · Reading time: ~20 sec.
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  • Turkey will ratify Sweden's NATO bid if the U.S. fulfills its promise regarding F-16 jet sales.

  • Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed Sweden's NATO membership last week in New York.

  • President Erdogan emphasized that the Turkish parliament will keep its promise if the U.S. keeps its commitments.
Erdogan says the Turkish parliament isn’t ready to ratify Sweden’s Nato bid: The Turkish president has become increasingly frustrated by the slow progress on his ...
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Erdogan says the Turkish parliament isn’t ready to ratify Sweden’s Nato ...
Finland makes it clear it won’t wait for Sweden to join Nato: Statements by Finnish policy makers at the Munich Security Conference confirm that Finland is ...
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Finland makes it clear it won’t wait for Sweden to join Nato
Stoltenberg for rapid admission: NATO open to Finland and Sweden joining separately
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Stoltenberg for rapid admission: NATO open to Finland and Sweden joining ...
Erdogan says Turkey positive on Finland's NATO bid, not Sweden's: Turkey looks positively on Finland's application for NATO membership, but does not support ...
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Erdogan says Turkey positive on Finland's NATO bid, not Sweden's
Turkey opposition vows to cut presidential powers if it wins vote: Alliance of opposition parties presents 240-page programme ahead of presidential and ...
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Turkey opposition vows to cut presidential powers if it wins vote
Erdogan blocks NATO plans: Finland loudly ponders accession without Sweden: In the face of a Koran burning in Stockholm, Erdogan threatens to block Sweden's ...
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Erdogan blocks NATO plans: Finland loudly ponders accession without Sweden
Sweden: Erdogan doll outrages Turkey: Turkey expresses outrage after a Kurdish demonstration in Stockholm, where an Erdogan doll was hung ...
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Sweden: Erdogan doll outrages Turkey
Sweden risks wrath of Erdoğan over extradition snub: "Erdoğan got the answer to his blackmail," exiled Turkish journalist Bülent Keneş has said after Sweden ...
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Sweden risks wrath of Erdoğan over extradition snub
Key FactsSweden's judiciary opposes extradition to Ankara as a condition for NATO membership.
Apr 17, 2023 · Reading time: ~30 sec.
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  • "I am a journalist," said editor-in-chief Bülent soon before his arrest in October 2015.

  • The Swedish Supreme Court has ruled that a journalist who allegedly insulted Erdogan may not be deported.

  • The Swedish Supreme Court has rejected Turkey's request to extradite journalist Bulent Kenes.

  • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had personally sought the journalist's extradition as a condition for his support of Sweden's accession to NATO.
'We humiliated ourselves': Sweden’s bid to join NATO meets continued resistance from Turkey
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'We humiliated ourselves': Sweden’s bid to join NATO meets continued ...
Sweden and Finland's accession: Turkey continues to block NATO expansion: Turkish President Erdogan continues to reject the NATO accession of Sweden and Finland ...
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Sweden and Finland's accession: Turkey continues to block NATO expansion
Key FactsNATO Accession Talks: Kristersson on a Difficult Mission
Apr 20, 2023 · Reading time: ~0 sec.
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  • Sweden and Finland have already agreed not to continue helping the YPG and PYD in the pact.

  • What are the ramifications of extraditing PKK members?

  • In any case, another item in the summer memoranda appears to be far more contentious.

  • It states that Sweden and Finland will "deal swiftly and thoroughly" with Turkey's extradition requests for terror suspects.

  • It claims that the problem is not so much with Finland as it is with Sweden.
Turkey demands Sweden take concrete steps prior to NATO approval: Ankara is demanding that Sweden and Finland extradite Kurdish rebels before lifting a veto on ...
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Turkey demands Sweden take concrete steps prior to NATO approval
Key FactsErdogan plans a further meeting on Sweden's NATO candidacy this month.
Apr 20, 2023 · Reading time: ~30 sec.
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  • After visiting Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson on Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan indicated another meeting would be conducted later this month. Kristersson was trying to persuade Turkey to remove its objections to Sweden joining NATO.

  • "We understand their security concerns, and we want Sweden to respond to ours," Erdogan added, accusing the Scandinavian country and its neighbor Finland of hosting outlawed Kurdish militants.

  • Kristersson stated that "the watchword in Sweden is to fight terrorism" and he regarded his discussion with Erdogan in Ankara as "very productive."

  • Turkey threatens Finland and Sweden that they must "take steps" before NATO membership is granted.