Finland will host talks with Sweden and Turkey for the first three-way talks on the Nordic countries’ Nato membership bids since Ankara demanded dozens of extraditions from Sweden in exchange for support.
The talks involving officials from the three countries will take place after a marked shift in tone from Sweden, which has begun deportations of two people wanted by Turkey and whose prime minister criticised a potential coalition partner for supporting Kurdish militants.
One Kurdish man due to be deported from Sweden to Turkey, Znar Bozkurt, who is not thought to be on a list drawn up by president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is on hunger strike in protest. His situation has sparked protests in the Scandinavian country, which has a sizeable Kurdish population.