According to him, Ankara risks paying for this.

“We should not have said yes to Sweden’s entry into NATO until Sweden fulfilled all its obligations to Turkey,” the Duvar newspaper quotes the politician as saying.

Among such obligations, Destici named resolving the issue of the activities of the representative office of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, banned in Turkey, and introducing criminal liability for insulting Turkish shrines.

Earlier, Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan officially approved Turkey's ratification of Sweden's membership in NATO.

At the same time, former intelligence officer of the United States Armed Forces Scott Ritter said that Sweden’s accession to NATO will make the bloc more vulnerable.