​​​​​​​Hani Suleiman confirms about Sweden and Finland positions; there’s gap between slogans, reality

The Turkish occupying power agreed to join NATO, after signing a memorandum on 28^th June 2022 in the Spanish capital Madrid, bowing to Erdogan's demands to lift the arms embargo on Turkey and refrain from supporting Kurdish organizations.

The Kurdish people see the agreement in support of the Turkish state's long-standing massacres and extermination policies against the Kurdish people.

Director of the Arab Centre for Research and Studies and the International Relations Expert, Hani Suleiman, attributes Sweden and Finland to the Turkish requirements due to the world's pragmatism and interests over any other considerations ", whether they relate to human rights or to the many principles proclaimed by the United Nations, the international community, fundamental organizations and even the slogans espoused by some European States could be dispelled in the interests".

Suleiman continued to highlight the double standards of international powers, "When there are crises, there is priority for interest, consensus and understandings away from any human rights frameworks, achieving justice or other concepts that may remain mere slogans when it comes to European interests, national security and the interests of those countries ".

He added: "But when it comes to the rights of some vulnerable states, minorities or some marginalized people, I think that all of that fades dramatically, as evidenced by the current Ukrainian crisis, the situation in Russia and the international community's movement towards the crisis away from the crisis given and the Middle East."

On the repercussions of the Madrid Agreement and the entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO, on the internal Turkish situation, Suleiman explained: "I believe that it will not have significant positive repercussions or in a noticeable way with regard to the living conditions of the Turkish citizen, or even the economic situation, given that this has repercussions for accumulations on the The political, economic, AKP policy and the Turkish president in general, so there will be no difference overnight."

With regard to the Russian position on Turkish moves inside Syria, Hani Suleiman indicates that there will be more crisis and a state of alert and a deterioration of relations. He said: "There will be confrontations between the two parties in more than one place and a shadow will be cast in the event of polarization and confrontation with regard to the Syrian interior."

Suleiman believes that crises will remain as long as Turkey has a project and as long as Erdogan is in power. He believes that "these aspirations will exist in light of the insistence on not achieving the demands of minorities and the Kurdish people, so the crises will not end and will exist in the coming period."

He points out that the major countries "could have made concessions at the expense of the Kurdish people and the Kurdish cause, especially since most of the demands for Finland and Sweden to enter NATO were related to these matters, especially the presence of activists, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, PKK, and various opposition groups."

Hani Suleiman believes that these matters reveal the deterioration of European positions and a severe case of the reality of the gap between the slogans, and the reality will have negative repercussions in a large way, especially in light of the lack of trust between these forces and their positions in the coming period.

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ANHA