Turkey is demanding “concrete steps” in answer to its demand from Sweden and Finland before it approves their bid to enter NATO. This was reiterated from talks yesterday between Swedish and Finnish delegations, who met with İbrahim Kalın, the security advisor to Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Sedat Önal. The Swedish delegation was led by State Secretary Oscar Stenstrom, while Jukka Salovaara, the Foreign Ministry Undersecretary, headed up the Finnish delegation, according to the Hurriyet Daily News.
The talks lasted about five hours. Kalin told a press conference afterward, “We have made it very clear that if Turkey’s security concerns are not met with concrete steps in a certain time frame, the process will not progress.”
