Three months after Turkey agreed to expedite Sweden's NATO membership bid, little sign of progress has emerged.
Sweden's Defense Minister Pal Jonson, left, arrives for a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukraine's Defense Minister Rustem Umerov arrived at NATO for meetings with alliance defense ministers to further drum up support for Ukraine's fight against Russia.
At a NATO summit in Lithuania's capital in July, Erdogan said he would transmit Sweden’s accession protocol to the Turkish parliament for ratification, the final step for Turkey to endorse its candidature, according to NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. Erdogan had relented after the Biden administration signaled it would let Turkey buy 40 new F-16 fighter jets and modernization kits from the United States. Ankara also received assurances from Sweden that it would help revive Turkey’s own quest to join the European Union.
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