{"id":48170,"date":"2020-10-14T08:16:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T08:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=48170"},"modified":"2020-10-14T08:16:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T08:16:57","slug":"turkish-and-swedish-foreign-ministers-hold-tense-talks-in-ankara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/48170\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish and Swedish foreign ministers hold tense talks in Ankara"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ANKARA, Turkey (North Press) \u2013 <\/strong>Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu criticized the foreign policies of each other\u2019s respective countries in a tense meeting in Ankara on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sweden has had mostly positive relations with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeast Syria, and in June 2019 a Swedish delegation <a href=\"http:\/\/hawarnews.com\/en\/haber\/swedish-envoy-for-the-syrian-file-meets-with-sdf-commander-h9780.html\">met with SDF Commander-in-Chief Mazloum Abdi.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turkey, in turn, considers the SDF a terrorist organization and an offshoot of the banned Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party (PKK), which has been engaged in an armed struggle with the Turkish state for decades. In July 2020, the Turkish Foreign Ministry released a press statement accusing Minister Linde of meeting with \u201cPKK\/PYD\/YPG terrorists\u201d, and added that the meeting \u201craises serious questions about Sweden&#8217;s stance as regards the fight against terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the Tuesday meeting, Cavusoglu criticized Sweden\u2019s condemnation of Turkish military incursions into northeast Syria. In 2018, members of Swedish parliament called on Turkey to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kurdistan24.net\/en\/news\/4bf99c08-0489-47b5-ab7a-705b288a7a8d\">end their invasion of Syria\u2019s Kurdish-majority region of Afrin<\/a>, and in 2019 Linde describing the Turkish invasion of Sere Kaniye and Tel Abyad as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kurdistan24.net\/en\/news\/9e8b482c-b62c-4e98-8da9-61e24a0d9d86?platform=hootsuite\">\u201ca direct violation of human rights.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cavusoglu also claimed that Sweden has remained silent regarding Greece\u2019s treatment of refugees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Linde fired back at the Turkish Foreign Minister, adding, \u201cI will just hope that everybody in Turkey will have the possibility to express their views as frank as you are doing, minister,\u201d in a reference to Turkey\u2019s routine arbitrary arrests and detentions of journalists and critics of the Turkish government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the criticisms laid out by both officials, Linde later described the talks as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnnLinde\/status\/1316000711361134594\">\u201cfrank and rewarding\u201d<\/a> on her official Twitter account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Reporting by Lucas Chapman<\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA, Turkey (North Press) \u2013 Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu criticized the foreign policies of each other\u2019s respective countries in a tense meeting in Ankara on Tuesday. 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