Türkiye‘s Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Friday met together with his Finnish counterpart Pekka Haavisto within the capital Ankara and mentioned NATO enlargement.
In a Twitter submit, Çavuşoğlu introduced his assembly with Pekka which got here forward of Finnish President Sauli Niinisto‘s go to to Ankara.
“Discussed NATO enlargement. Thanked for the earthquake support,” he added.
Abandoning many years of navy non-alignment, Finland and Sweden formally utilized to affix NATO final May.
However, Türkiye, a longstanding NATO member, requested the 2 Nordic states to take concrete motion in opposition to terror teams just like the PKK and FETÖ, which perform propaganda, funding and recruitment actions in these nations.
In June, Finland, and Sweden signed a memorandum with Türkiye to deal with Ankara’s safety considerations, and senior diplomats and officers from the three nations have held numerous conferences since then to debate the implementation of the trilateral settlement.
Separately, Çavuşoğlu spoke over the telephone together with his Turkmen counterpart Rashid Meredov and mentioned bilateral relations.
According to the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Meredov congratulated Çavuşoğlu over Thursday’s extraordinary summit of the heads of state of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) held in Ankara.
The OTS, previously referred to as the Turkic Council, is a world group comprising distinguished unbiased Turkic nations that work collectively to raise relations and union amongst themselves.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
