China’s response to Turkey’s desire of joining SCO regional security bloc
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BEIJING: China has responded to the Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan desire of joining the China Russia SCO bloc.
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China is willing to consider any application from NATO-member Turkey to join a Russian and Chinese-led security bloc, China’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday, after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said his country could join.
China, Russia and four Central Asian nations — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan — formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in 2001 as a regional security bloc to fight threats posed by radical Islam and drug trafficking from neighboring Afghanistan.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang said that Turkey is already a dialogue partner of the bloc and has for a long time closely cooperated with it, which China appreciates.
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China attaches great importance to Turkey’s wish to strengthen that cooperation, he told a daily news briefing.
