Statement by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan about Sweden and Finland

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made statements at the press conference held after his visit to Azerbaijan. Answering questions about the Finnish and Swedish delegations, President Tayyip Erdogan said, "Unfortunately, the talks were not at the expected level. They are not honest, they are not sincere."

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan noted that the talks with Finland and Sweden are far from the expected level. Erdoğan said: “They have expectations, but they have not taken the necessary steps regarding Turkey, and they are still on the streets of Stockholm during the process we are holding these talks with. He tours the terrorists and secures them with his own police. In fact, on the evening of the day they held the meeting, they do all kinds of wrong things to us by making the terrorist called Salih Muslim talk on Swedish state television, and they continue their negative attitudes and approaches on the F16 issue and so on. They are not honest, they are not sincere. We cannot repeat the mistake made in the past regarding the countries that embrace and feed such terrorists in NATO, which is a security organization. What was that? In particular, Greece had left NATO in the past, and the Turkish administration of that time paved the way for Greece to join NATO again. Greece was saying the same things, saying that nothing would happen. Look, at the moment, Greece owes Europe 400 billion euros, more or less. There are 5+4, ie 9, the United States currently has 9 bases in Greece.” Natural Gas Negotiations Will Be Held With Israel President Erdoğan stated that cooperation talks will be held with Israel on natural gas. Erdogan said, “If we look at the information that our Foreign Minister has brought to us at the point of taking such a step, they say that they are ready and we will continue our work within this framework. Thus, we will have taken the steps to bring Turkey-Israel relations to a more positive point. At the moment, the outlook on the subject is positive. It is my hope that we will be able to complete the developments in this positive direction as soon as possible."