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The desire of Sweden and Finland to become members of NATO will not require the deployment of additional ground forces on their territory, said yesterday to US senators a US general nominated for the post of European Command, the Associated Press reported, quoted by BTA.

NATO allies should encourage Finland and Sweden to take concrete steps regarding Turkey's concerns about the "support given to terror groups," Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on May 27.

The minister reminded that Turkey's opposition to Finland and Sweden's NATO bid is due to their "support to terrorist organizations."

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and French President Emmanuel Macron have discussed over the phone the ongoing war in Ukraine, prospects of NATO's expansion with Sweden and Finland, as well as the state of bilateral ties, the Turkish Presidency has announced.

A senior Turkish official said after talks with Swedish and Finnish officials on May 25 that Turkey would not agree to the two Nordic countries joining NATO unless specific steps are taken to address Ankara's objections.

İYİ (Good) Party will lend support to the government's policy regarding Finland and Sweden's membership in NATO if this policy aims to eliminate the illegal PKK group in Europe, party leader Meral Akşener said on May 25.

Turkey has called on Sweden and Finland to give concrete assurances in their fight against terrorism, particularly the PKK and its Syrian offshoot YPG, if they want to join NATO. The message was delivered to the Nordic states at a three-way meeting in the Turkish capital Ankara on May 25.

Hungary has imposed a state of emergency, and Viktor Orbn states that Budapest will stay away from the war.
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Minister for Climate and the Environment Annika Strandhll and the president of the federal board of the women's faction of the Social Democrats, told the newspaper "Svenska dagbladet" (The Swedish Daily News) that the women's faction opposes joining NATO. That faction has a "long history of fighting for issues related to peace, disarmament, detente and non-entry into military alliances".

Dozens of leopard tanks, infantry armored vehicles and other armored vehicles were spotted on the railway platforms.
Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal "the protection of people who have been exposed to genocide by the regime in Kyiv for eight years".