Category: Turkey
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Turkey will not approve Sweden and Finland joining NATO
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday he is not going to approve Sweden and Finland getting NATO membership. The Swedish ministry of foreign affairs said on Monday that senior representatives from Helsinki and Stockholm are set to travel “soon” to Turkey to talk about Turkey’s objections to their NATO membership. However, Erdogan said…
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Turkey will not let NATO warships enter the Black Sea
Turkey will not allow NATO warships into the Black Sea said Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar. Akar referred to the Montreux Convention and said that the passage would be shut for the warships of countries that do not have access to the Black Sea. The head of the Turkish Defense Ministry added that the appearance…
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Turkish PM Erdogan saddened by Gaddafi’s fate
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said he was saddened by the fate of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who was brutally killed after being ousted by his opponents. “I was saddened by Gaddafi’s fate being the way it was,” Erdoğan told a group of journalists accompanying him during his visit to Iran on…