Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Turkey finally gets on board with Finland and Sweden joining NATO

 This ought to give Putin pause:

Office of the President of the Republic of Finland
Press release 41/2022
28 June 2022

Today in Madrid, before the beginning of the NATO Summit, we had a thorough meeting with President of Türkiye Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister of Sweden Magdalena Andersson, facilitated by Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg.

As a result of that meeting, our foreign ministers signed a trilateral memorandum which confirms that Türkiye will at the Madrid Summit this week support the invitation of Finland and Sweden to become members of NATO. The concrete steps of our accession to NATO will be agreed by the NATO Allies during the next two days, but that decision is now imminent.

Our joint memorandum underscores the commitment of Finland, Sweden and Türkiye to extend their full support against threats to each other’s security. Us becoming NATO Allies will further strengthen this commitment.

I realize that this afternoon's avalanche of big news (Maxwell's 20-year sentence, Cassidy Hutchinson's J6 testimony, the Rasmussen poll showing that half of likely voters approve of SCOTUS ruling in Dobbs) presents us with a dizzying number of claims on our cognitive faculties, but this must not get lost in the shuffle. It shows that a unified front against Russia's barbarism in Ukraine still exists.

 

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