Erdogan says Turkey could approve Finland's NATO candidacy

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• Europe Finland opens for the first time to join NATO without Sweden

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hinted on Sunday that

, without doing the same with Sweden.

"If necessary, we can give a different message about Finland.

," declared the Turkish leader in response to a question about the candidacy of the two Nordic countries for NATO, during a televised meeting. with young people

For the first time, the Turkish government indicated that it is willing to treat Finland's request separately from Sweden's.

Turkey halted Swedish and Finnish NATO membership on Tuesday by indefinitely postponing a tripartite meeting originally scheduled for early February to address Turkish objections.

Erdogan warned last Monday that Sweden, which he accuses of harboring Kurdish "terrorists", could no longer count on Ankara's "support" after

.

Without mentioning the incident, the Turkish president reiterated his criticism of Sweden over Turkey's extradition demands.

"We told them 'if you want to join NATO, you have to give these terrorists back to us'. We gave them a list of 120 people (...) But they make fun of us saying that they have changed their Constitution," he said.

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