More from the article...

..."There are still some issues, they made some progress and some steps were taken but at this moment it's not sufficient enough," Cavusoglu told Bloomberg on Tuesday before meeting his Swedish and Finnish counterparts on the sidelines of a NATO ministerial meeting in Bucharest....

The trilateral memorandum signed in Madrid laid out measures for Sweden and Finland needed to overcome Turkey's objections. Now, Turkey wants Sweden to put an end to propaganda activities by supporters of separatist Kurdish militants who have waged a decades-old war for autonomy that has claimed tens of thousands of lives and cost Turkey hundreds of billions of dollars.

"They need to implement some articles of this memorandum and we will have an open, candid and friendly meeting here in Bucharest with my colleagues," Cavusoglu said. "I hope to see some chances for progress and move forward and I need to show something to my people and parliament that they've delivered."

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is facing elections next year and is keen to consolidate nationalist support by pressuring the Nordic nations to crack down not only on supporters of the Kurdish PKK militant group -- already designated a terrorist organization by the European Union and the U.S. -- but also on affiliates such as the YPG militia in Syria.

Asked about what else his country can offer, Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom told reporters ahead of the Bucharest meeting that "it boils down to a dialogue, we believe we're on a steady path toward reaching all the conditions laid out in the memorandum."

"I would like to underline though that there are things in this memorandum that are important to Sweden as well," Billstrom added. "For instance the data cooperation between crime-fighting authorities, this is important because we see people who committed crimes in Sweden go off to Turkey and we want to have them back in order to fulfill the process of carrying out justice."...

Related? (an older article that may not be fully up to date...)

Wow, this seems to work...

Turkey's new name is Trkiye

@#6

OK, it worked in the preview, not not in the final posting.

The "u" in "Turkiye" is actually a u-umlaut.

That is, two dots over the "u".

@#8

In one respect, I might agree with you.

But in a prior life, I managed a software engineering team for a very American company. By that I mean, all the software was written for use by Americans, i.e., English-only.

Then the company acquired a company in Europe, and the two software teams had to work together, both teams reporting to me. Which they did quite excellently. No personality clashes, the EU team willing to work late to talk with the US team. And the US team willing to come in early to talk with the EU team. So far so good.

But when we had to merge the software, there was one little detail that everyone (everyone!, including me as the manager) overlooked.

The EU team routinely develops software that works with many languages ("internationalized" - there are software conventions, guidelines and maybe even standards for internationalizing software). While the US team routinely wrote software for one language, English.

Fortunately, the relationship between the acquiring company and the acquired company was most excellent. It was chalked up to experience.

Some members of the EU development team were invited to the NYC area for a week of business meetings to explain the development of software for an international audience. The company handled it well. It was a most fun week for the developers (NYC!!!). New friendships were made (this was 30 years ago, and I know some of those "across-the-pond" friendships are still quite active.)

So... sorry for the diversion, but the US fixation upon basic ASCII irks me at times.

So, where was I...

... Might not have been the smartest choice for a name change if they expect it to be used. ...

Oh yeah.

Only in the United States will you find archaic websites that cannot handle things like u-umlaut.

RCade, you know that I have the highest respect for what you create here, but really. u-umlaut?

@#10 ... keyboards ...

I've not met anyone outside the US who has had issues with u-umlaut on their keyboard.

Indeed, the EU, based upon my visits there, have zero (zero!) issues with keyboards and their character set.

@#12 ... Most operating systems now have input method editors so you can change what the keystrokes correspond to. ...

Yes, but will websites accept those characters.

My point is that I typed in *uuml; in a comment (the leading ampersand was replaced with a star in my example) I got bupkis in my post.

The issue does not seem to be with the keyboard, but with what the site accepts.

(curious word, that bupkis...)

@#15 ... This one is a bit "retro" by design. ...

Yup.

And, imho, by choice.

The security issues raises by accepting any ole UTF-8 character can be a mine field.

So, to me, the question for RCade becomes... does he want to spend a lot of money to make this most august site UTF-8 compatible? Or does he spend the few ad dollars he get to keep this site running.

My current vote is the latter.

Text is text. It can convey opinions.

The [ASCII-based] discussions here are most valuable.

So, my view would be that the overriding priority would be to keep these discussions going.

RCade may not agree with me on that, but it wouldn't be the first time we've disagreed. :)

@#17

Yeah, I know that one can slip an emoti or two by the character-altering background processes of this most august site.

I've done so in the past.

So, let me see you put an u-umlaut in your comment.

Then I would be impressed.

:)