Sweden says Turkey is asking too much over NATO application - Reuters

STOCKHOLM, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Sweden is assured that Turkey volition o.k. its exertion to articulation the NATO subject alliance, but cannot fulfil each the conditions Ankara has acceptable for its support, Sweden's premier curate said connected Sunday.

"Turkey some confirms that we person done what we said we would do, but they besides accidental that they privation things that we cannot oregon bash not privation to springiness them," Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson told a defence think-tank league successful Sweden.

Finland and Sweden signed a three-way statement with Turkey successful 2022 aimed astatine overcoming Ankara's objections to their rank of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

They applied successful May to articulation NATO successful effect to Russia's penetration of Ukraine, but Turkey objected and accused the countries of harbouring militants, including from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party

One sticking constituent has been extraditions of radical Turkey regards arsenic terrorists. Ankara expressed disappointment with a determination precocious past twelvemonth from Sweden's apical tribunal to halt a petition to extradite a writer with alleged links to Islamic student Fetullah Gulen, blamed by Turkey for an attempted coup.

Reporting by Johan Ahlander and Simon Johnson; editing by Barbara Lewis

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