A meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his Finnish counterpart and the Swedish Prime Minister intended to try to lift the Turkish veto on the entry of the two Nordic countries into NATO began Tuesday, June 28 in Madrid, according to Swedish officials and Finnish.
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This meeting is held on the premises of the Alliance summit, which opens Tuesday evening in the Spanish capital.
Turkey is blocking Sweden and Finland from joining because it accuses them of harboring militants from the Kurdish organization PKK, which it considers "
terrorist
".