These are the conditions for Turkey to accept the membership of Sweden and Finland in NATO

A Turkish newspaper said that Ankara had prepared a list of ten demands that it said it would ask Sweden and Finland to implement before agreeing to their membership in NATO.

The list published by "Sabah" newspaper today calls on the two countries to stop any financial support for groups linked to the "PKK", as well as to the Syrian Kurdish fighters, whom Ankara considers an extension of the banned group.

Turkey also calls on these two countries to stop contacts with members of the Syrian Kurdish group.

Sabah newspaper said that Turkey, in addition, wants the two countries to "accelerate" the procedures for handing over suspects wanted by Ankara on terrorism charges.

The list also includes a call for Sweden to clamp down on a disinformation campaign against Turkey led by followers of the preacher Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara says was behind a 2016 coup attempt, many of whom were followers of the Gulen movement who fled to Sweden.

And the US “Bloomberg” agency has reported that Ankara requires the lifting of sanctions imposed on it against the background of its possession of the Russian S-400 defense systems, to agree to Sweden and Finland’s accession to NATO.

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