Tag: Erdoğan
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Türkiye at 100: Reflecting on the progress of a century and looking ahead
The significance of Turkey’s successful transformation and emergence as a beacon of stability and prosperity is perhaps more visible than ever today, as our entire region continues to struggle with unstable situations, wars, conflicts and humanitarian crises. Türkiye is a significant key player in regional and international affairs by responding to global challenges, promoting peace…
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Sweden’s NATO application to the Turkish parliament for ratification
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has today submitted a bill to parliament for the ratification of Sweden’s NATO membership. This is announced by the Turkish president’s staff, reports the Reuters news agency.
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The NATO chief is calling for talks on July 6 in the hope of convincing Turkey to let Sweden join
BRUSSELS (AP) – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday he has called a July 6 meeting of senior officials from Turkey, Sweden and Finland to try to overcome Turkish objections to Sweden joining the military alliance. Hungarian lawmakers, meanwhile, said a long-delayed vote in parliament to ratify Sweden’s NATO membership would not take place…
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Sweden in Erdoğan’s grip for a year
Program manager: Anja [email protected] Reporters: Firas Jonblat, Lotten Collin, Fernando Arias, Besir Kavak, Filip Kotsambouikidis Technician: Jacob Gustavsson
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Erdoğan’s secret agents
Participating: Cemil Ayganformer PKK sympathizer and then Turkish intelligence agent, anonymousformerly high-ranking within the Turkish state, Berivan CelebratedPKK sympathizer in Paris, Guillaume Perrierformer correspondent for Le Monde in Turkey, author of the book “Les loups aiment la brume” (young “The wolves love fog”) about the Turkish secret service’s covert operations in Europe, Abdullah BozkurtTurkish journalist…
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Erdoğan Has Destroyed Turkey’s Economy – So What’s Next?
Turkey’s 2023 election is one of the most significant in its century-long history. After years of currency crashes, disappearing foreign reserves and rising inflation, rethinking economic policy will be a top priority for whoever is sworn in after the May 14 vote. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his ruling AKP (Justice and Development Party) came…
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Live: One year later, Ukraine celebrates the Bucha massacre
Friday marks one year since Russia withdrew from the Kiev suburb of Bucha, leaving the bodies of civilians strewn on the streets in what has become a symbol of alleged Russian war crimes that shocked the world. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said via social media that Ukraine will “never forgive” what happened there. Follow our…
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The recidivism of criminals, the rise of cinemas and Erdogan’s weaker position
Is there room for care when the number of prisoners increases? Also this week, the shootings and explosions have continued in Sweden – and on Thursday, the government and the Sweden Democrats presented new details regarding increased penalties for crimes committed within criminal networks. Among other things, it is proposed that the punishment for serious…
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President Niinistö: Sweden’s security is not vulnerable if Finland joins NATO first
Although both Nordic countries have held negotiations with NATO, Turkey and Hungary have not yet ratified their offers. The biggest obstacle has been Turkey, which has expressed its opposition to Finland’s and Sweden’s view of the PKK, which it considers a terrorist organization. However, his visit to Ankara last Friday the president Erdoğan said that…
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NATO negotiations, elections and exciting summer plans: Finland in the world press
Sweden saw the meeting as a step forward despite Turkey’s blockade and objections. “The most important thing today is that we have gathered,” the Swedish negotiator Oscar Stenström told reporters at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Politico reported. Stenström added that the countries have agreed on further meetings. The article also discusses the alliance’s speculation about…
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So the Kurdish question is sacrificed to appease Erdoğan
Swedish Radio’s presenter Johar Bendjelloul tells about Swedish politicians who quickly changed their position on Kurdish groups after Sweden applied for membership in NATO. Hear how groups previously seen as allies are now being described as dubious with links to terrorists. The news podcast Today’s Eco brings you a story every weekday morning with host…
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Chang Frick: “I think the useful idiot is Ulf Kristersson”
Since 2014, Chang Frick runs the immigration-critical news site Nyheter Idag and is the most well-known profile in the so-called alternative media world. He has a background as a Swedish Democratic municipal politician in Kristianstad. He is interviewed by Johar Bendjelloul. Recently, it has not been his publications that have been in focus, but his…
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Niinistö on NATO membership: “If not before Vilnius, why after?”
“If not before Vilnius, why after,” he remarked interview for STT. Both Finland and Sweden heard several encouraging statements about a smooth accession process last spring, he reminded, but the process has turned out to be very different. The bumpy road has not only caused headaches for the two aspiring member states. “I see that…
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Turkey’s trauma becomes Erdoğan’s fate test
Turkey’s president has declared seven days of national mourning following the earthquake in the early morning of February 6. Although the extent is not yet fully known, it is clear that what happened is a historical disaster and a national trauma for Turkey. Few things test a country’s structures and leaders like a natural disaster.…
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Haavisto: Finland has the patience to wait for NATO accession
According to Haavisto, attitudes towards Finns’ membership application have “advanced” in Turkey. The Turkish media reported about a week ago that Turkey has suspended its ratification negotiations with Finland and Sweden. At the time, Haavisto estimated that the negotiations would probably be on hold for a few weeks. President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced…
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Monday’s papers: Erdoğan hints at NATO acceptance for Finland, discovery expeditions, slippery roads
Most morning newspapers report that the Turkish president has expressed his support for Finland’s NATO membership, but is still delaying Sweden’s application.
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Haavisto: Finland and Sweden continue their journey to NATO
Last week, Turkey broke off tripartite talks on Finland’s and Sweden’s membership applications in response to the burning of a Koran outside its embassy in Stockholm. Rasmus Paluda, a Danish-Swedish far-right decision-maker. Helsingin sanomat newspaper was revealed Last week, the decision-maker received support for his protest Chang Fricka Swedish journalist who has collaborated with an…
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Magdalena Andersson (S): The government has gone further than the agreement with Turkey requires
Social Democrats party leader Magdalena Andersson is interviewed about the NATO process, what the Social Democrats want with nuclear power and what she wants to do in the meantime in opposition. This week, Turkish President Erdoğan said that Sweden should not expect Turkey’s support with the NATO application, after first a doll representing Erdoğan was…
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Niinistö: "Serious discussion" Erdoğan is ahead
The Finnish president hopes that the country’s NATO membership application will proceed before the alliance’s Vilnius summit in July.
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We believe they are ready: USA for Sweden, Finland for NATO candidacy
“The issue of Sweden and Finland is not a bilateral issue. We have been very clear in public, and we have also been very clear in private about our views on Finland and Sweden’s NATO membership candidates. We believe they are ready, we believe they are ready. should be added to the world’s strongest defense…
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Finland and Sweden are still striving for NATO together, Haavisto assures
“Together with Billström, we have decided that despite all these objections, Finland and Sweden will continue their joint journey to NATO. We are working together to take action so that both countries can have their membership ratified and we will become NATO members at the same time, he said. quoted saying YLE in Parliament. He…
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Defense Minister Savola: Erdoğan’s portrait as unnecessarily provocative
The Finnish Defense Minister visited Sweden and his Swedish counterpart on Monday to discuss, among other things, defense cooperation, support for Ukraine and the NATO application process.
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Halla-aho: Erdoğan’s extradition demand “pulled out of a hat”
Jussi Halla-ahothe chairman of the parliament’s foreign affairs committee on Monday evaluated at YLE A-studio, that the number is not based on anything concrete. “It’s more or less a number pulled out of a hat that was used to raise the stakes in response to the provocation in Sweden,” he analyzed, referring to a recent…
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Haavisto: Finland has not received updated requirements from Turkey
Finland’s foreign minister said the Turkish president’s latest comments were likely related to the picture of Erdoğan in front of Stockholm City Hall last week.
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Monday’s papers: Conditions in Turkey, police confrontation and well-educated foreigners
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan demanded that Finland and Sweden hand over 130 people that Turkey considers terrorists.
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Therefore, Erdoğan wants to invade northern Syria
On November 13, a bomb detonated on Istanbul’s main pedestrian street Istiklal and several people were killed. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan blames the Kurdish YPG militia, which he considers to be an offshoot of the terror-labeled PKK guerrillas. But the Kurdish groups deny any involvement. After the deed, Turkey has begun bombing targets in…
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Tuesday’s papers: Energy crisis postponed, Erdoğan’s election and mental health crisis
Turkey could still delay Finland’s NATO membership – but does it matter?
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Erdoğan’s list of demands to admit Sweden into NATO
Sweden’s prime minister and foreign minister have described the Kurdish armed YPG militia in Syria as “dubious” due to close ties to the terrorist group PKK. Even Sweden’s previous government has written in the tripartite agreement between Turkey and Finland that it will not support the militia YPG or its political branch PYD. But while…
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VMA in Unnaryd in Hylte municipality, Halland county •
Turkey has so far put an end to Sweden’s NATO application, because the country believes that Sweden supports terrorism. During the day, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara. Hear directly from the press conference with analysis in the studio.
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Tuesday’s papers: Energy crisis postponed, Erdoğan’s election and mental health crisis
Turkey could still delay Finland’s NATO membership – but does it matter?
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Tobias Billström (M): Membership in NATO is the overriding value
The moderate foreign minister Tobias Billström, who was previously migration minister in the coalition government, says that he is currently recalibrating the foreign administration. Ahead of Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s meeting with Turkish President Erdoğan on Tuesday, Tobias Billström distances himself from the Kurdish militia in Syria YPG and their political branch, the PYD party.…
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Therefore, Erdoğan slows down Sweden in NATO
There are only two countries that have not yet approved Sweden’s NATO application – Hungary and Turkey. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has made clear demands on Sweden in order for him to agree to admit Sweden into the defense alliance. The list of demands includes, among other things, that Sweden hand over a number of…
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Turkey is again asking for legal assistance against the man from Tampere who insulted Erdoğan
Turkey is again trying to make a dual citizen of Turkey and Finland living in Tampere guilty of insulting its president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The latest request for mutual legal assistance arrived at Finland’s Ministry of Justice shortly after Erdoğan began to publicly present his country’s conditions for supporting Finland’s NATO membership. Turkey has previously…