The Secretary General of NATO is going to the negotiations regarding Finland and Sweden.
Turkey again demands the extradition of six persons from Finland, and nine persons were extradited from Sweden. This was reported by the Turkish publication Hürriyet Daily News.
Turkey considers the mentioned persons to be terrorists living in Finland and Sweden. According to Turkey, they have ties to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, the PKK and the Gülen movement.
Earlier, Finland rejected Turkey's requests to extradite six people. In September, the Ministry of Justice said it would not re-examine the cases.
As Hürriyet Daily News reports, representatives of the Turkish and Finnish justice ministries met in the Turkish capital and discussed legal cooperation between the two countries in the context of the latter's application to NATO.
A Turkish team led by Kasim Çiçek, Director General of the Department of Foreign Affairs and European Union of the Ministry of Justice, provided the Finnish delegation with evidence in the extradition cases.
Ankara called on Helsinki to implement the provisions of the tripartite memorandum on understanding between Turkey, Sweden and Finland, which provides for the cooperation of the two northern NATO candidate countries with the Turkish government in the fight against terrorism and the extradition of terrorists.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said today that he plans to travel to Turkey to to discuss the membership of Finland and Sweden in NATO. This was reported by the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.
Turkey and Hungary are the only 30 NATO member states that have not yet ratified the membership of Finland and Sweden.
Turkey is trying to fulfill its demands by delaying ratification. membership.
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To date, 28 NATO countries have ratified the applications of Finland and Sweden, the last of which is Slovakia.
