Turkey’s Erdogan Backs Sweden NATO Membership After Long Delay
(Bloomberg) -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked the country’s parliament to ratify Sweden’s application to join NATO, a crucial step in the Nordic nation’s bid to join the military alliance after almost a year and a half of delays.Most Read from BloombergUS Push for Release of Hostages May Delay Israeli Ground War, But Won’t Stop ItTreasury 10-Year Yield Breaches 5% for First Time Since 2007Car Owners Fall Behind on Payments at Highest Rate on RecordIsrael Latest: Oil Declines as Hos Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has asked the country's parliament to ratify Sweden's application to join NATO, a crucial step in the Nordic nation's bid to join the military alliance. The decision comes after almost a year and a half of delays. Sweden's membership will be debated by Turkey's foreign-relations committee before a final vote in parliament, where Erdogan's ruling AK party and its allies hold majority of the seats. The ratification vote will be held. This decision represents a significant breakthrough for the NATO effort to strengthen its defenses following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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(Bloomberg) -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked the country’s parliament to ratify Sweden’s application to join NATO, a crucial step in the Nordic nation’s bid to join the military alliance after almost a year and a half of delays.
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Sweden’s membership will be debated by Turkey’s foreign-relations committee before a final vote in parliament, where Erdogan’s ruling AK party and its allies hold a majority of the seats. It’s unclear when a ratification vote would be held.
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Erdogan’s decision represents a major breakthrough for the military alliance’s push to strengthen its defenses following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine early last year, having already admitted Finland. Turkey was one of the last hold-outs preventing Sweden’s membership along with Hungary, accusing the government in Stockholm of failing to do enough to crack down on supporters of separatist Kurdish militants that Turkey regards as terrorists.
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Turkey’s benchmark Borsa Istanbul 100 Index extended its gain to as much as 3.8% after Erdogan’s move, which was hailed by Sweden’s prime minister Ulf Kristersson as “gratifying.”
“Now what is left is for the parliament to process the issue,” Kristersson said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. “We look forward to becoming members of NATO.”
Recent anti-Turkish demonstrations in Sweden, including public burnings of the Koran, have hampered the process. Erdogan also linked Sweden’s membership to Turkey’s negotiations with the US to purchase F-16 fighter jets.
After Erdogan announced in March he will give a go-ahead to lawmakers to approve Finland’s membership bid, it took the country’s parliament less than two weeks to ratify the entry. Hungary’s parliament also ratified the Finnish bid swiftly after the Turkish president’s announcement.
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