{"id":86965,"date":"2022-06-28T19:21:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T19:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2022\/06\/28\/turkey-lifting-objections-to-sweden-finland-joining-nato\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:19:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:19:39","slug":"turkey-lifting-objections-to-sweden-finland-joining-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/flashpoints\/2022\/06\/28\/turkey-lifting-objections-to-sweden-finland-joining-nato\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey lifting objections to Sweden, Finland joining NATO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MADRID \u2014 Turkey agreed Tuesday to lift its opposition to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2022\/06\/02\/how-sweden-and-finland-could-reshape-natos-northern-security\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sweden and Finland joining NATO<\/a>, a breakthrough in an impasse clouding a leaders\u2019 summit in Madrid amid Europe\u2019s worst security crisis in decades triggered by the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe now have an agreement that paves the way for Finland and Sweden to join NATO,\u201d alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said following top-level talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine prompted Sweden and Finland to abandon their long-held nonaligned status and apply to join NATO. But Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan had blocked the move, insisting the Nordic pair change their stance on Kurdish rebel groups that Turkey considers terrorists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finnish President Sauli Niinist\u00f6 said the three countries\u2019 leaders signed a joint agreement after talks on Tuesday. Turkey said it had \u201cgot what it wanted\u201d including \u201cfull cooperation &#8230; in the fight against\u201d the rebel groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agreement comes at the opening of a crucial summit dominated by Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. U.S. President Joe Biden and other NATO leaders arrived in Madrid for a summit that will set the course of the alliance for the coming years. The summit was kicking off with a leaders\u2019 dinner hosted by Spain\u2019s King Felipe VI at the 18th-century Royal Palace of Madrid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stoltenberg said the meeting would chart a blueprint for the alliance \u201cin a more dangerous and unpredictable world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTo be able to defend in a more dangerous world we have to invest more in our defense,\u201d Stoltenberg said. Just nine of NATO\u2019s 30 members meet the organization\u2019s target of spending 2% of gross domestic product on defense. Spain, which is hosting the summit, spends just half that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Top of the agenda for leaders in meetings Wednesday and Thursday is strengthening defenses against Russia and supporting Ukraine. Biden, who arrived with the aim of stiffening the resolve of any wavering allies, said NATO was \u201cas united and galvanized as I think we have ever been.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moscow\u2019s invasion on Feb. 24 shattered European security and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2022\/06\/28\/the-nato-summit-is-chance-to-wean-europe-off-us-military-might\/\" target=\"_blank\">brought shelling of cities and bloody ground battles back to the continent<\/a>. NATO, which had begun to turn its focus to terrorism and other nonstate threats, has had to confront an adversarial Russia once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cUkraine now faces a brutality which we haven\u2019t seen in Europe since the Second World War,\u201d Stoltenberg said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diplomats and leaders from Turkey, Sweden and Finland earlier held a flurry of talks in an attempt to break the impasse over Turkey\u2019s opposition to expansion. The three countries\u2019 leaders met for more than two hours alongside Stoltenberg on Tuesday before the agreement was announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Erdo\u011fan is critical of what he considers the lax approach of Sweden and Finland toward groups that Ankara deems national security threats, including the Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party, or PKK, and its Syrian extension. American support for Syrian Kurdish fighters in combatting the Islamic State group has also enraged Turkey for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turkey has demanded that Finland and Sweden extradite wanted individuals and lift arms restrictions imposed after Turkey\u2019s 2019 military incursion into northeast Syria. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2022\/06\/06\/turkey-seeks-to-repair-ties-with-western-procurement-club\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ending the deadlock<\/a> will allow NATO leaders to focus on their key issue: an increasingly unpredictable and aggressive Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Russian missile strike Monday on a shopping mall in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk was a grim reminder of the war\u2019s horrors. Some saw the timing \u2014 as Group of Seven leaders met in Germany and just ahead of NATO \u2014 as a message from Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is due to address NATO leaders by video on Wednesday, called the strike on the mall a \u201cterrorist\u201d act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko traveled to Madrid to urge the alliance to provide his country with \u201cwhatever it takes\u201d to stop the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWake up, guys. This is happening now. You are going to be next, this is going to be knocking on your door just in the blink of an eye,\u201d Klitschko told reporters at the summit venue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stoltenberg said Monday that NATO allies will agree at the summit to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2022\/06\/27\/nato-to-boost-readiness-numbers-approve-new-ukraine-aid-at-madrid-summit\/\" target=\"_blank\">increase the strength of the alliance\u2019s rapid reaction force nearly eightfold<\/a>, from 40,000 to 300,000 troops. The troops will be based in their home nations, but dedicated to specific countries on NATO\u2019s eastern front, where the alliance plans to build up stocks of equipment and ammunition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beneath the surface, there are tensions within NATO over how the war will end and what, if any, concessions Ukraine should make to end the fighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are also differences on how hard a line to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2022\/06\/21\/face-it-nato-the-north-atlantic-and-indo-pacific-are-linked\/\" target=\"_blank\">take on China in NATO\u2019s new Strategic Concept<\/a> \u2014 its once-a-decade set of priorities and goals. The last document, published in 2010, didn\u2019t mention China at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new concept is expected to set out NATO\u2019s approach on issues from cybersecurity to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/energy-and-environment\/\" target=\"_blank\">climate change<\/a> \u2014 and the growing economic and military reach of China, as well as the rising importance and power of the Indo-Pacific region. For the first time, the leaders of Japan, Australia, South Korea and New Zealand are attending the summit as guests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some European members are wary of the tough U.S. line on Beijing and don\u2019t want China cast as an opponent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the Strategic Concept, NATO is set to declare Russia its No. 1 threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russian state space agency Roscosmos marked the summit\u2019s opening by releasing satellite images and coordinates of the Madrid conference hall where it is being held, along with those of the White House, the Pentagon and the government headquarters in London, Paris and Berlin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agency said NATO was set to declare Russia an enemy at the summit, adding that it was publishing precise coordinates \u201cjust in case.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Associated Press writers Aritz Parra, Ciaran Giles and Sylvie Corbet contributed from Madrid.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine prompted Sweden and Finland to abandon their long-held nonaligned status and apply to join NATO. 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