Turkey-Finland-Sweden memorandum of understanding unfair – PYD
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – On Thursday, the Democratic Union Party (PYD) considered that undermining the rights of Kurdish people in the memorandum of understanding signed by Ankara, Stockholm and Helsinki is unfortunate and unfair and indicates how those countries are far from democratic and human values.
This came two days after a meeting in Madrid on June 28 between leaders of Turkey, Finland and Sweden under the auspices of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) announced about a trilateral memorandum between Turkey, Sweden and Finland paving the way for Finland and Sweden’s NATO membership, the issue that Turkey had rejected since May under the pretext that they support the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the Democratic Union Part (PYD) and the People’s Protection Unites (YPG).The agreement, which took place a day before NATO’s annual summit in Madrid, ended weeks of disputes between Turkey and the two countries.
“Turkey is exploiting the world’s preoccupation of the Russian-Ukrainian war to practice the ugliest methods of blackmailing,” the PYD said in a statement.
“This matter opened the door for bargains and trade-offs far from democratic standards and human rights treaties,” the party added.
The PYD is a Kurdish political party established on Sept. 20, 2003 in northern Syria. It operates in Kurdish-majority areas in Syria, and Turkey claims it to be Syria’s branch of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
The PYD believed that the Swedish and Finnish people are friends, and reminded the European people that the standards of democracy and human rights should be applied to everyone.