{"id":5644,"date":"2023-06-04T20:54:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=5644"},"modified":"2023-06-04T20:54:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T15:54:06","slug":"nato-chief-to-erdogan-sweden-has-fulfilled-obligations-for-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/world\/nato-chief-to-erdogan-sweden-has-fulfilled-obligations-for-membership\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO chief to Erdogan: Sweden &#8216;has fulfilled obligations&#8217; for membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Istanbul, June 4: NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Sunday called on Ankara to drop its opposition to Sweden&#8217;s bid to join the defence alliance, saying Stockholm has addressed Turkey&#8217;s security concerns.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Sweden has taken significant concrete steps to meet Turkey&#8217;s concerns,&#8221; Stoltenberg told reporters after meeting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. &#8220;Sweden has fulfilled its obligations.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stoltenberg attended on Saturday the inauguration of Erdogan, who was re-elected to serve another five years, in a lavish ceremony joined by dozens of world leaders in the capital Ankara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NATO member Turkey has dragged its feet over admitting Sweden to the military alliance. It and Hungary are the only two member countries yet to ratify the membership bid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finland formally joined the alliance in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erdogan has accused Sweden of being a haven for &#8220;terrorists&#8221;, especially members of the Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party (PKK), a group blacklisted by Turkey and its Western allies.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Istanbul, June 4: NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Sunday called on Ankara to drop its opposition to Sweden&#8217;s bid to join the defence alliance, saying Stockholm has addressed Turkey&#8217;s security concerns. &#8220;Sweden has taken significant concrete steps to meet Turkey&#8217;s concerns,&#8221; Stoltenberg told reporters after meeting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. &#8220;Sweden has fulfilled its obligations.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":5645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,73,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-security","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}