Turkey is increasingly convinced that Sweden is ready to comply with Ankara’s demands to approve its application to join NATO, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing Turkish officials.

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristerson will travel to Ankara on Tuesday for talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to approve the Scandinavian country’s NATO membership bid.

Mr Kristerson has previously said that the Swedish government will not cooperate with organizations associated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which Ankara considers a terrorist organization. Sweden has also lifted restrictions on the export of military equipment to Turkey, which were introduced in 2019.

According to the interlocutors of the agency, all these measures should remain in force even after the country joins the alliance.

On May 18, Sweden and Finland applied to join the alliance, but Turkey immediately blocked the accession process, demanding that these countries declare Kurdish organizations terrorist, extradite persons accused of terrorism or involved in a coup attempt. a ban on the supply of weapons to Ankara.

On June 28, before the start of the NATO summit in Madrid, negotiations took place between Mr.

According to the Turkish President, Sweden has promised to extradite more than 70 people involved in terrorist activities.

Source: TASS