{"id":1771193,"date":"2022-12-10T06:30:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T11:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1771193"},"modified":"2022-12-10T10:49:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T15:49:36","slug":"u-s-confident-sweden-and-finland-will-join-nato-despite-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-confident-sweden-and-finland-will-join-nato-despite-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Confident Sweden and Finland Will Join NATO, Despite Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-confident-sweden-and-finland-will-join-nato-despite-turkey%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1771193&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2022-12\/GettyImages-1245460786.jpg?h=a5ae579a&#038;itok=TW29I894\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"     style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed confidence on Thursday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2022\/11\/top-turkish-swedish-finnish-diplomats-talk-nato-enlargement\">Sweden and Finland<\/a> will soon enter the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), despite the current\u00a0holdup by Turkey.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth countries have taken significant concrete actions to fulfill their commitments, including those related to the security concerns on the part of our ally Turkey,\u201d Blinken said in a news conference at the State Department alongside his Swedish and Finnish counterparts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere can be no doubt on anyone&#8217;s part that they are ready today to be formal members of the alliance,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in February, Sweden and Finland abandoned decades of military nonalignment to seek membership in NATO, driven by concerns their countries could be next.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p class=\"text-align-center\" dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">&#8220;We are well prepared and eager to join NATO and to contribute to the security of the entire Alliance.&#8221; &#8211; Sweden&#8217;s Foreign Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TobiasBillstrom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TobiasBillstrom<\/a> \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddee <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JUYPeoV6IC\">pic.twitter.com\/JUYPeoV6IC<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet text-align-center\"><p>\u2014 Embassy of Sweden USA (@SwedeninUSA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SwedeninUSA\/status\/1600896550275731458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Their requests to join the trans-Atlantic alliance require the approval of all 30 member states, 28 of which have so far ratified the required protocols. Turkey and Hungary are the remaining holdouts, although Budapest has indicated its parliament will soon ratify.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur hope is that this decision should come from Turkey rather sooner than later,\u201d Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Turkey&#8217;s objections mainly stem from concerns that Sweden and Finland are harboring \u201cterrorists,\u201d including Kurdish separatists who have waged a decadeslong insurgency inside Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>In June, the three countries reached a deal aimed at addressing Ankara\u2019s security concerns. The trilateral memorandum required, among other things, that Sweden and Finland lift arms embargoes imposed on Turkey in the aftermath of its 2019 military campaign against US-backed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2022\/11\/syrian-opposition-gears-turkish-ground-operation\">Kurdish fighters in northern Syria<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some six months later, Turkish officials say the Nordic countries have yet to fulfill their obligations under the memorandum. The thorniest issue appears to be Turkey\u2019s demands for extraditions of dozens of people with alleged ties to groups including the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party and followers of the exiled preacher Fethullah Gulen.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Most of Ankara\u2019s ire has been directed at Stockholm, which lifted its ban against exporting military equipment to Turkey this September and passed a constitutional amendment tightening its anti-terror laws last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Sweden deported a Kurdish man with alleged terrorism ties to Turkey, a move Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag called a \u201cgood start.\u201d Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu also welcomed the move but said Ankara still needs to see the extraditions of suspected terrorists whose names it submitted to Stockholm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said that Stockholm was addressing Turkey\u2019s concerns outlined in the June agreement.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the fulfillment of a memorandum has to take place within the framework of the constitution that we have in Sweden,&#8221;\u00a0Billstrom said.\u00a0&#8220;This is something which the Turkish government is well aware of.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed confidence on Thursday that Sweden and Finland will soon enter the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), despite the current\u00a0holdup by Turkey.\u00a0\u201cBoth countries have taken<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1898276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,7503,7625,7624,3819,7626,7623,7238],"class_list":["post-1771193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-confident","tag-finland","tag-nato","tag-report","tag-sweden","tag-turkey","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}