Thread by @VanberghenEU

#Sweden told #Turkey that it cannot fulfil its extradition requests as a quid pro quo for Turkish agreement to Swedish #Nato membership, but arms exports might create some political room for manoeuvre. #thread

#UlfKristersson, Sweden’s prime minister, said that the country will do what it needs to in order to fulfil the tripartite agreement with #Turkey signed last summer. #Sweden is neither able nor willing to fulfil conditions that go beyond the scope of the deal. 1/2

#Turkey has requested the extradition of people living in Sweden. The decision is a matter for the Swedish courts. Other concessions from Ankara are arms deliveries. There is no formal ban on arms exports to Turkey, but in practice there is. 1/3

#Sweden and #Finland de facto have not issued any permits for weapons sale to Turkey after the Turkish attacks against the Syrian Kurds from 2016-2019. 1/4

#Sweden to adopt some legislative changes to find a solution to the arms export issue. It involves permitting Finnish & Swedish defence companies to compete for #Turkish military contracts & for the governments to process defence goods export applications 1/5

Probably a meeting between Erdogan and Bashar al-Assad soon? A rapprochement btw two hostile states?
The geopolitical context which #Erdogan enjoys is too good...to be true. 1/6

#Finland said is ready to wait for #Sweden, to join #NATO together. What about us...about the public opinion? What about the war in #Ukraine? Could Turkey facilitate the end of this war? A lot of questions....END