Turkiye's president has suggested his country might approve Finland's application for NATO membership before taking any action on Sweden's, while the Turkish government issued a travel warning for European countries due to anti-Turkish demonstrations and what it described as Islamophobia.
The travel warning published late Saturday followed demonstrations last weekend outside the Turkish Embassy in Sweden, where an anti-Islam activist burned the Quran and pro-Kurdish groups protested against Turkiye. The events stiffened Turkiye's refusal so far to ratify Sweden's NATO bid.
Turkiye has accused the government in Stockholm of being too lenient toward groups it deems as terror organizations or existential threats, including Kurdish groups. NATO requires unanimous approval of its existing members to add new ones, but Erdogan's government has said it would only agree to admit Sweden if the country met its conditions.
Erdogan said he told the Swedish prime minister, "You will extradite these terrorists if you really want to enter NATO. If you don't extradite these terrorists, then sorry." He said Turkiye had provided a list of 120 people it wants extradited from Sweden, a demand that was part of a memorandum signed in June that averted Turkiye's veto of the Nordic nations' joint application.
Following last week's protests, Erdogan warned Sweden not to expect support for its membership bid for the military alliance. Turkiye also indefinitely postponed a key meeting in Brussels that would have discussed Sweden and Finland's NATO membership.
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