Representatives of Sweden, Finland and Turkey met in Helsinki on Friday to discuss the two Scandinavian countries joining NATO. It was the first trilateral talks since the NATO summit in Madrid at the end of June, at which Sweden and Finland signed a declaration of commitment requested by the Erdogan government.

As the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced after the meeting of representatives of the foreign, interior and justice ministries as well as the security and secret services of the three countries, "concrete steps to implement the memorandum" have been discussed, and another meeting would take place in the autumn.

Meanwhile, in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Helsinki, members of the Kurdish Democratic Community of Finland (NCDK) and Finnish activists protested against the Finnish government's cooperation with the Erdogan regime. Activists criticized the fact that Finland and Sweden want to sacrifice fundamental rights for NATO accession.

Due to a dirty deal at the expense of the Kurds, the two countries are ready to hand over Kurdish activists to a dictatorship and to suppress activities of legal Kurdish organizations.

The participants in the protest demanded that Finland should, under no circumstances, give in to Erdogan's dictatorial demands and that the decision to ban arms sales to Turkey should be continued. The brutal attacks by the Turkish state in Kurdistan and the ongoing violation of international law were also condemned.