Erdogan has a “bazaar trader’s mentality.” Finns and Swedes will join NATO in exchange for three things – Denník N

They are incubators of terrorism. This is how Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Sweden and Finland, threatening to block their bid to join NATO. He had in mind in particular their close contacts with Kurdish dissidents. As a NATO member, Ankara can really do that. The consent of all member countries of the North Atlantic Alliance is required for the opening of accession negotiations. And Erdogan doesn’t want to give them yet. Officially in support of Kurdish terrorist organizations, unofficially, according to analysts, they are only trying to use the new security situation in Europe caused by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. How about a bazaar: what does he want? “This bazaar mentality is present in Turkey, as well as its chief Erdogan, we know that,” Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn told Bloomberg. According to him, the Turks are mainly concerned with this. This article is the exclusive content for subscribers of Denník N.