NATO membership negotiations between Turkey, Sweden and Finland have been postponed indefinitely at Ankara’s request, an Ankara source told RIA Novosti.

Finland and Sweden decided to join NATO on May 18 amid the events in Ukraine.

Their applications have already been approved by 28 alliance countries, but Hungary and Turkey have not ratified them.

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Ankara is demanding that Stockholm and Helsinki “stop supporting the PKK” and extradite activists considered in Turkey to be “involved in terrorism”.

The Turkish authorities have repeatedly stated that without the fulfillment of these conditions there will be no progress in the admission of the northern countries to NATO.