Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday welcomed his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto with an official ceremony on the presidential complicated within the capital Ankara.
The leaders will maintain one-on-one talks, to be adopted by a joint news convention.
Erdoğan and Niinisto will talk about all elements of the Türkiye-Finland relations and potential steps aimed toward enhancing the cooperation between the 2 international locations, a Turkish presidency assertion mentioned.
They may even alternate views on “Finland’s NATO membership application in accordance with the Trilateral Memorandum signed on the margins of the NATO Madrid Summit, the Türkiye-EU relations and current regional and global issues,” in response to the assertion.
Abandoning a long time of army 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 towards terror teams just like the PKK and FETO, which perform propaganda, funding and recruitment actions in these international locations.
In June, Finland, and Sweden signed a memorandum with Türkiye to deal with Ankara’s safety issues, and senior diplomats and officers from the three international locations have held numerous conferences since then to debate the implementation of the trilateral settlement.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
