Sweden has promised to extradite 73 people to Turkey as part of the implementation of a memorandum signed on Tuesday in Madrid between Sweden, Finland and Turkey, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, CNN reported..

According to him, if the promise is not kept, Turkey will not ratify the agreement on the accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO in the Parliament..

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Erdogan called the Memorandum itself a "

Ahead of the NATO summit where the tripartite memorandum was signed, Turkey said it would veto Sweden and Finland's NATO membership bids, alleging they were hiding members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which Turkey, the EU and the US designate as a terrorist organization..

The 10-article memorandum states, inter alia, that Sweden and Finland will consider Turkey's preliminary requests for the extradition of suspected terrorists in accordance with the European Convention on Extradition.

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Back in May, Erdogan said that Turkey would not agree to the entry of Finland and Sweden into NATO and set ten conditions for the countries under which it could reconsider the decision.

On June 13, it became known that Sweden met Turkey halfway on two points from the list of conditions.