On Thursday, the Foreign Relations Committee of the Turkish Parliament approved the draft law on Finland’s membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
This came during a committee meeting chaired by Representative Akif Çağatay Kılıç at the Parliament building in the capital, Ankara.
Officials from the Ministries of Justice, Foreign Affairs, Defense and Interior and the Intelligence Agency attended the meeting.
During the meeting, Deputy Foreign Minister Burak Akçabar briefed the parliamentarians about Finland’s NATO membership proposal.
On Friday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that his country has approved Finland’s NATO membership.
“Based on our interests to address our security concerns, we have decided that our parliament will initiate the process of ratifying Finland’s NATO accession protocol,” Erdogan said.
On June 28, 2022, Turkey, Sweden and Finland signed a tripartite memorandum of understanding on the accession of the last two countries to NATO, after promising to respond to Ankara’s requests for cooperation in the fight against terrorism.
According to the statement made by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu last December, Turkey is calling on Sweden to cooperate and take concrete steps to hand over the wanted terrorists to Ankara instead of being content with “sweet words”.
Source: Anatolia
