Turkish President threatens to 'freeze' Finland and Sweden's NATO membership bids again, CNN reports.

On Monday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan again threatened to block the NATO membership process for Sweden and Finland, despite an agreement reached in late June to give the green light to their application after negotiations with the Scandinavian countries and NATO members..

“We have given our conditional consent to start the process of accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO. I would like to reiterate that we will freeze the process if they do not take the necessary steps to fulfill our conditions,” Erdogan said on Monday after the cabinet meeting..

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At the end of June, Turkey said it had signed a tripartite memorandum with Finland and Sweden that supported their bid for NATO membership and was due to be ratified by the parliaments and legislatures of all 30 member states..

Following the signing of a memorandum concerning several outstanding issues between Turkey, Finland and Sweden, the two Nordic countries made the historic decision to formally apply for NATO membership, ending decades of neutrality..

Ankara said Helsinki and Stockholm agreed not to support the Kurdish People's Protection Units, which Turkey considers a terrorist organization..

Finland and Sweden also confirmed that the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party, also known as the PKK, which is considered a terrorist organization by Turkey, the US and the EU, is a "

Erdogan also reported that Sweden promised to extradite 73 people to Turkey, as the memorandum stipulates that Sweden and Finland will consider Turkey's requests for the extradition of terrorist suspects..

Back in May, Erdogan said that Turkey would not agree to the entry of Finland and Sweden into NATO and set 10 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.