A Kurdish politician reveals to ARK Turkey's conditions for Sweden and Finland to join NATO

ARK News... A Kurdish politician on Wednesday, January 11, 2012, said that Turkey has three conditions in exchange for agreeing to Sweden and Finland joining NATO.

Ibrahim Koclu, a Kurdish politician, participated from the city of Amed in Kurdistan, Turkey to the ARK newsletter said that Turkey sets three conditions in exchange for agreeing to Sweden and Finland joining NATO, namely: The two countries abandoning support for the PKK, giving up support for other organizations such as Fethullah Gulin, and handing over wanted persons from PPK and Gulin to it.

The Kurdish politician added that Turkey's refusal to join the two countries and its placement of obstacles is due to the two countries non-compliance with the text of the agreement concluded between them, which is to hand over wanted persons to it and to stop supporting organizations that it calls a terrorist.

The Turkish conditions are messages to the European countries, to stop supporting the two organizations, and to turn the file into a political one. Nevertheless, the Turkish differences with Finland are less severe than with Sweden, according to the politician.

He explained that there are no Finnish and Swedish conditions on Turkey other than asking them to agree to join NATO, and the main problem between Turkey and Sweden is the file of extraditing wanted persons who were refugees and have become Swedish nationals to Turkey, and their extradition is contrary to Swedish laws.

At the end of his speech, he said that the outstanding problems will be faced by the movement of other countries to start negotiations with Turkey to persuade them to agree.

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