ISTANBUL (Reuters) -The U.S. ambassador to Turkey said he anticipates that President Tayyip Erdogan will give a final sign-off on Sweden’s NATO membership within days, triggering rapid steps toward U.S. Congress endorsing a sale of F-16 fighter jets to Ankara.
In an interview on Thursday, Ambassador Jeff Flake said that once the formal ratification document is received in Washington, the U.S. State Department will immediately send Congress notification of the $20 billion F-16s sale.
Turkey’s parliament ratified Sweden’s NATO membership bid on Tuesday, clearing a major hurdle to expanding the Western military alliance after 20 months of delay.
Just in time for Turkey to bomb the
PKKYPG with these new toys after Sweden caved in to call them a terrorist organisation.Just to stop misinformation, while Sweden did make some awful concessions to Turkey, the PKK has been listed as a terrorist organisation in Sweden since 1984. Sweden was the first country to do so after Turkey.
You are right, my bad. Apparently it’s the "PKK affiliated" YPG (which is also Kurdish but in Syria)
I remembered news reports of Turkey blocking NATO membership over designating Kurdish groups as terrorists and thought it was about PKK
Yes, they were mad about both YPG and PKK, for different reasons. People demonstrated in Stockholm with PKK flags and Erdogan was baffled and mad that we didn’t throw them in jail or deport them to Turkey.