It is outrageous and unacceptable for our friends and allies to support the PKK terrorist organization," Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said, referring to Ankara's reservations about the possible NATO membership of Sweden and Finland, which, he said, "openly support and have relations with the PKK, which is a terrorist organization."
"Turkey has supported NATO's open-door policy from the beginning. Even when some people were against the accession of some countries in our region and in the Western Balkans, we supported their accession. But NATO is not a union or an international organisation, it is an alliance. So the issue is not only security, but also solidarity when allies need it," Cavusoglu said, coming to the working dinner of the informal meeting of NATO foreign ministers taking place in Berlin, stressing that "these two countries openly support and have relations with the PKK, which is a terrorist organization, daily attacking our troops - even yesterday we lost a soldier on our soil." Therefore, he continued, "it is unacceptable and outrageous that our friends and allies support this terrorist organization."
The Turkish foreign minister also said that "because of Turkey's fight against this terrorist organization, export restrictions have been imposed on the defense industry products that we import from our allies and some countries that are planning to join NATO," to underline that "this is why the vast majority of the Turkish people are against the accession of these countries and are asking us to prevent this accession."
He noted, however, that all these issues should be discussed with the allies and the two countries concerned.
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