Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a press conference after the NATO summit in Madrid that “Sweden has promised us that 73 terrorists will be extradited.”
“We expect our allies to take into consideration our concerns not just at a rhetorical level but also through facts”, Erdogan said at the Madrid NATO Summit, talking about a memorandum between Ankara, Helsinki, and Stockholm.
Through this memorandum, Turkey lifted a veto on the candidature of the Scandinavian countries to join the Atlantic Alliance in exchange for their pledge to distance themselves from groups that the Turkish government considers as terrorist organizations.
“We will closely follow if these statements are maintained or not,” added Erdogan, defining the memorandum with the Scandinavian countries as a “diplomatic victory”.
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