International Desk: Turkey said on Monday that NATO accession talks with Sweden and Finland would be held next month, after being postponed in January over a row about protests held in Stockholm, reports BSS. <\/p>\n
“The meeting will be held on March 9,” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told a news conference in Ankara, alongside his Hungarian counterpart.<\/p>\n
Bids to join NATO must be ratified by all members of the alliance, of which Turkey is a member.<\/p>\n
But Ankara was outraged by the protests in January that included the burning of the Koran outside its embassy in Stockholm.<\/p>\n
In turn Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Sweden he would not support its bid to join the Western US-led defence alliance.<\/p>\n
Erdogan has dug in his heels heading into a close presidential election in which he is trying to energise his nationalist electoral base.<\/p>\n
Previous two rounds of the tri-party NATO talks were attended by foreign ministry officials and focused on a specific list of Turkish demands, which include the expulsion of dozens of mostly Kurdish suspects.<\/p>\n
Cavusoglu said the third planned meeting would be held in Brussels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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