The leader of Sweden's Moderate Party and newly elected Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson holds a press conference after the voting at the Swedish parliament Riksdagen in Stockholm, Sweden, on Oct 17, 2022. (JONATHAN NACKSTRAND / AFP)

STOCKHOLM – Sweden is confident that Türkiye will approve its application to join the NATO military alliance, but will not meet all the conditions Ankara has set for its support, Sweden's prime minister said on Sunday.

"Turkey both confirms that we have done what we said we would do, but they also say that they want things that we cannot or do not want to give them," Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson told a defense think-tank conference in Sweden.

At a news conference later on Sunday, Kristersson said the demands that Sweden could not or did not want to fulfill were outside the scope of their three-way memorandum

Finland and Sweden signed a three-way agreement with Türkiye in 2022 aimed at overcoming Ankara's objections to their membership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

They applied in May to join NATO in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but Türkiye objected and accused the countries of harboring militants, including from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party.

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At a news conference later on Sunday, Kristersson said the demands that Sweden could not or did not want to fulfill were outside the scope of the three-way memorandum.

"From time to time, Türkiye mentions individuals that they want to see extradited from Sweden. To that I have said that those issues are handled within Swedish law," he said.

Ankara expressed disappointment with a decision late last year from Sweden's top court to stop a request to extradite a journalist with alleged links to Islamic scholar Fetullah Gulen, blamed by Türkiye for an attempted coup.