OUR Turkey today indefinitely postponed trilateral talks with Sweden and Finland regarding their membership in NATObroadcast by the Turkish network TRT Haber.

The meeting was supposed to take place in February in Brussels and was postponed at the request of Ankara, TRT reports citing Turkish diplomatic sources. Earlier this month, Erdogan’s spokesman said he was going to be present at the talks and this year. alliance, Jens Stoltenberg.

Turkey’s said request came at a time when tensions with Sweden and Finland are escalating more and more, against the background of the entry of the two countries into the North Atlantic Alliance, the conditions of which Ankara set from the very beginning.

After the previous days’ demonstrations, when Swedish protesters burned Koran Infuriating Ankara and provoking counter-demonstrations in Turkey, Erdogan said he did not “see” a possible Sweden joining the North Atlantic Alliance, noting that Sweden should not expect Turkish support for its membership.

At the same time, NATO Governor Jens Stoltenberg invited Turkey not create obstacles to the integration of the country.

Helsinki asks for a “time out” in the talks