French President Emmanuel Macron will meet Thursday with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is threatening to veto Finland and Sweden's entry into NATO, in the midst of the Ukrainian crisis.
This interview will take place at 11:30 a.m. in Paris (9:30 a.m. GMT) by telephone, added the French presidency, which specified that Emmanuel Macron was at Fort de Brégançon, one of the residences of the presidency which is located on the Côte d 'Azur, where he will stay for a few days, Thursday being a public holiday in France.
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Ankara warned on Wednesday that it would not agree to the accession of Sweden and Finland without having obtained
"concrete measures"
from them concerning its security concerns, after having received delegations of diplomats from these two countries. .
Turkey opened a crisis within NATO, of which it is a member, by opposing the extension of the organization to these two countries which asked to join the Alliance after the Russian invasion of the Ukraine and received the support of the overwhelming majority of member states.
Finland in particular shares 1300 km of land border with Russia.
Turkey accuses the Nordic countries, particularly Sweden, which has a large community of Turkish exiles, of harboring Kurdish militants from the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which it considers a terrorist organization.
She also denounces the presence of supporters of the preacher Fethullah Gülen, whom she suspects of having orchestrated the July 2016 coup attempt. Ankara is today asking the two countries to "take concrete steps" concerning "
the presence at the organizational, financial and media level of terrorist organizations”
, affirmed the spokesman of the Turkish presidency and close to President Erdogan.
