{"id":15973,"date":"2022-06-14T12:04:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T12:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/turkey-threatens-year-s-delay-to-swedish-and-finnish-entry-to-nato"},"modified":"2022-10-09T04:54:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T04:54:08","slug":"turkey-threatens-year-s-delay-to-swedish-and-finnish-entry-to-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/turkey-threatens-year-s-delay-to-swedish-and-finnish-entry-to-nato","title":{"rendered":"Turkey threatens year&#8217;s delay to Swedish and Finnish entry to Nato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Akif &#199;a&#287;atay K&#305;l&#305;&#231; speaking into microphone. Photograph: Anadolu Agency\/Getty Images Turkey has said it is willing to delay Swedish and Finnish membership of Nato for more than a year unless it receives satisfactory assurances that the two Nordic countries are willing to address support for Kurdish groups it regards as terrorist organisations. Finland&#8217;s prime minister said on Tuesday that the two nations&#8217; Nato applications could stall if the issue is not resolved before a vital Nato summit due to start in Madrid on 29 June. Turkey accuses Sweden and Finland of harbouring alleged members of the Kurdistan Workers&#8217; party (PKK) and also objects to their decisions in 2019 to ban arms exports to Ankara due to Turkey&#8217;s military operations in Syria. Turkey has gone on a public diplomacy offensive to highlight Swedish support for Kurdish groups in northern Syria that it links to the PKK &#8211; designated as a terrorist organisation in the EU, US and Turkey &#8211; and is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issue may derail alliance summit as Ankara digs in on accusation that Nordic countries harbour terrorists<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,101],"tags":[42,102],"class_list":["post-15973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-politics","tag-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}